NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM vs ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM and ATI Radeon X1300 PRO 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 0 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 80 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 50% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 126 vs 84

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	26 November 2009 vs 1 November 2006
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	126 vs 84

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Around 2% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 589 MHz
Around 2% higher texture fill rate: 2.4 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 313 vs 309

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 589 MHz
Texture fill rate	2.4 GTexel / s vs 2.356 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	313 vs 309

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

309

313

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

126

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM	ATI Radeon X1300 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	309	313
PassMark - G3D Mark	126	84

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM	ATI Radeon X1300 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0	R500
Code name	GT218	RV516
Launch date	26 November 2009	1 November 2006
Place in performance rating	521	518
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	589 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	22.432 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	8
Texture fill rate	2.356 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	260 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	168 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.1	9.0c
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.4 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR2	DDR