NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i vs ATI Radeon 8500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i and ATI Radeon 8500 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 7050 + nForce 630i

ATI Radeon 8500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 82% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 275 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 150 nm
5.4x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 38 vs 7

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	4 October 2007 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	38 vs 7

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 8500

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 146 vs 145

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	146 vs 145

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 8500

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

145

146

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i	ATI Radeon 8500
PassMark - G2D Mark	145	146
PassMark - G3D Mark	38	7

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7050 + nForce 630i	ATI Radeon 8500
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 7
Code name	C73	R200
Launch date	4 October 2007	14 August 2001
Place in performance rating	1161	1165
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	630 MHz
Core clock speed	500 MHz	275 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	150 nm
Transistor count	112 million	60 million
Texture fill rate		2.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		64 MB
Memory bandwidth		8.8 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		550 MHz
Memory type		DDR