ATI Radeon X800 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon X800 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 PRO

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 2 month(s) later
2.4x more core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 140 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 32 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 400 MHz
8.1x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 65 vs 8

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 May 2004 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 140 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	900 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	65 vs 8

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

140.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 5.7 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 5.7 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X800 PRO
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

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Name	ATI Radeon X800 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
PassMark - G3D Mark	65	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	190	190

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X800 PRO	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rankine
Code name	R423	NV34 B1
Launch date	1 May 2004	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	921	922
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	140 nm
Texture fill rate	5.7 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	48 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	45 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR