NVIDIA GeForce 6150 vs ATI Radeon X700

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 6150 and ATI Radeon X700 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 6150

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 month(s) later
  • Around 19% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 250 vs 248
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 11 October 2004 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed 475 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 250 vs 248

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X700

  • 3.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 73 vs 22
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 73 vs 22

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 6150
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X700

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
22
73
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
250
248
Name NVIDIA GeForce 6150 ATI Radeon X700
PassMark - G3D Mark 22 73
PassMark - G2D Mark 250 248

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 6150 ATI Radeon X700

Essentials

Architecture Curie R400
Code name C51 RV410
Launch date 11 October 2004 1 September 2004
Place in performance rating 687 688
Price now $149.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 0.18

Technical info

Core clock speed 475 MHz 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 110 nm
Texture fill rate 3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 44 Watt
Transistor count 120 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCI PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0b
OpenGL 2.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 500 MHz
Memory type DDR