NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Around 57% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 350 MHz
9.4x more texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 350 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 1.4 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X300

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512	ATI Mobility Radeon X300
PassMark - G3D Mark		34
PassMark - G2D Mark		204

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512	ATI Mobility Radeon X300
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	G70	M22
Launch date	14 November 2005	1 November 2005
Launch price (MSRP)	$649
Place in performance rating	not rated	869
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s	1.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	108 Watt
Transistor count	302 million	107 million
Boost clock speed		350 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	228 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	54.4 GB / s	4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	250 Bit
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz	500 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	64
Shared memory		0
Technologies
PCIe