NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP vs ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP and ATI Mobility Radeon X300 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 month(s) later
Around 7% higher core clock speed: 375 MHz vs 350 MHz
4.3x more texture fill rate: 6 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 128 MB
2.4x more memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
5.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 177 vs 34

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 February 2006 vs 1 November 2005
Core clock speed	375 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 500 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	177 vs 34

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 204 vs 199

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	204 vs 199

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X300

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

199

204

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

177

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP	ATI Mobility Radeon X300
PassMark - G2D Mark	199	204
PassMark - G3D Mark	177	34

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP	ATI Mobility Radeon X300
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	G71	M22
Launch date	2 February 2006	1 November 2005
Place in performance rating	867	869
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	375 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	6 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	75 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	107 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB / s	4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	250 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe