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.

NVIDIA GeForce 6150

ATI Radeon X700

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

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	689	690
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