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.

ATI Radeon X850 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5300

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

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	1062	1064
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