ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 vs NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 and NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 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 PCX 5300

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 150 nm
7.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 43 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	30 August 2006 vs 17 February 2004
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	43 vs 6

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

197

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
PassMark - G2D Mark	197	197
PassMark - G3D Mark	43	6

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
Essentials
Launch date	30 August 2006	17 February 2004
Place in performance rating	891	892
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Architecture		Rankine
Code name		NV37
Technical info
Boost clock speed	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	4
Core clock speed		325 MHz
Texture fill rate		1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count		45 million
Memory
Shared memory	1
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		650 MHz
Memory type		DDR
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors		1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface		PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX		9.0a
OpenGL		1.5 (2.1)