ATI Radeon X850 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 PRO and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 PRO

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 9 month(s) later
  • Around 84% higher core clock speed: 507 MHz vs 275 MHz
  • 5.5x more texture fill rate: 6.08 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 64 MB
  • 2.1x more memory clock speed: 1040 MHz vs 500 MHz
  • 5.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 73 vs 13
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 December 2004 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed 507 MHz vs 275 MHz
Texture fill rate 6.08 GTexel / s vs 1.1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 256 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 1040 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 73 vs 13

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 157
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 159 vs 157

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X850 PRO
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
73
13
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
157
159
Name ATI Radeon X850 PRO NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300
PassMark - G3D Mark 73 13
PassMark - G2D Mark 157 159

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X850 PRO NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

Essentials

Architecture R400 Rankine
Code name R480 NV34 A1
Launch date 1 December 2004 1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 1064 1065
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 507 MHz 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 150 nm
Texture fill rate 6.08 GTexel / s 1.1 GTexel / s
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 6-pin

API support

DirectX 9.0b 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 33.3 GB / s 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1040 MHz 500 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 DDR