ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT 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 X800 GTO AGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 70% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 235 MHz
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
2.5x more memory clock speed: 980 MHz vs 400 MHz
12.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 9

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2005 vs 17 March 2003
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	980 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	115 vs 9

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

195.8x more texture fill rate: 940 MTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 166 vs 162

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	940 MTexel / s vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	166 vs 162

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

162

166

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

115

Name	ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
PassMark - G2D Mark	162	166
PassMark - G3D Mark	115	9

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rankine
Code name	R430	NV31 A1
Launch date	1 October 2005	17 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1028	1031
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	235 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	4.8 GTexel / s	940 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	80 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	31.36 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	980 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR