ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200 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 Xpress 1270 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 11 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 140 nm
3.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 27 vs 8
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 191 vs 190

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 February 2007 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	300 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 140 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	27 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	191 vs 190

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

191

190

Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
PassMark - G3D Mark	27	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	191	190

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 1270 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX Go5200
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rankine
Code name	RS690	NV34 B1
Launch date	28 February 2007	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	919	922
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	140 nm
Transistor count	120 million	45 million
Texture fill rate		800 MTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		32 MB
Memory bandwidth		6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		400 MHz
Memory type		DDR