ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP and NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 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 200 IGP

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 5 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 130 nm

Launch date	8 November 2004 vs 12 May 2003
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 130 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

Around 33% higher core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 17% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 30

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 300 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 30

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

188

Name	ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
PassMark - G3D Mark	30	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	188	188

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon Xpress 200 IGP	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Rankine
Code name	RS480	NV35
Launch date	8 November 2004	12 May 2003
Place in performance rating	935	937
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$399
Technical info
Core clock speed	300 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	130 nm
Transistor count	107 million	135 million
Texture fill rate		3.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length		218 mm
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0	9.0a
OpenGL	2.0	1.5 (2.1)
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		700 MHz
Memory type		DDR