ATI Radeon X600 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X600 and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon X600

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X600

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 23% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Around 23% higher texture fill rate: 1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 57 vs 17

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 September 2004 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	57 vs 17

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

Around 18% higher memory clock speed: 590 MHz vs 500 MHz

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	590 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	211 vs 210

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X600
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

210

211

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon X600	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
PassMark - G2D Mark	210	211
PassMark - G3D Mark	57	17

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X600	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5650
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rankine
Code name	RV370	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 September 2004	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	839	841
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	325 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s	1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	36 Watt
Transistor count	107 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	9.44 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	590 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR