ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
  • Around 22% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 425 MHz
  • 4.9x more texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • Around 98% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 81 vs 41
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 March 2004 vs 23 October 2003
Core clock speed 520 MHz vs 425 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.32 GTexel / s vs 1.7 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1120 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 81 vs 41

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

  • 2.5x lower typical power consumption: 25 Watt vs 63 Watt
  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 173 vs 170
Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 25 Watt vs 63 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 173 vs 170

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
170
173
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
81
41
Name ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700
PassMark - G2D Mark 170 173
PassMark - G3D Mark 81 41

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X800 XT Platinum NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

Essentials

Architecture R400 Rankine
Code name R423 NV36 A1
Launch date 1 March 2004 23 October 2003
Place in performance rating 993 995
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 520 MHz 425 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 8.32 GTexel / s 1.7 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 63 Watt 25 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 PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 35.8 GB / s 16 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1120 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 DDR