ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Memory, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 110 nm

Launch date	30 August 2006 vs 11 August 2005
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 110 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual

Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual
PassMark - G2D Mark	197
PassMark - G3D Mark	43

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GT Dual
Essentials
Launch date	30 August 2006	11 August 2005
Place in performance rating	922	not rated
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Curie
Code name		G70
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	4
Core clock speed		400 MHz
Texture fill rate		2x 8 GTexel / s billion / sec
Transistor count		302 million
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		2x 256 MB
Memory bandwidth		2x 32.0 GB / s
Memory bus width		2x 256 Bit
Memory clock speed		1000 MHz
Memory type		GDDR3
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX		9.0c
OpenGL		2.1