ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition and NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200 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 X850 CrossFire Edition

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 450 MHz
4.6x more texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
Around 54% higher memory clock speed: 1080 MHz vs 700 MHz

Core clock speed	520 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz vs 700 MHz

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm

Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200

Name	ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
PassMark - G3D Mark		45
PassMark - G2D Mark		199

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7200
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Curie
Code name	R480	G72
Launch date	10 September 2006	1 September 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	890
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	520 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s	1.8 GTexel / s
Transistor count	160 million	112 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	34.6 GB / s	2.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	350 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	32
Shared memory		0