ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE 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 XT AGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP

2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 250 MHz
8x more texture fill rate: 8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.5x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 400 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Name	ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
PassMark - G3D Mark		25
PassMark - G2D Mark		147

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X800 XT AGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rankine
Code name	R420	NV36 A1
Launch date	1 March 2004	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	not rated	1117
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	54 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	82 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
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	32.0 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR