NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS and ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 7 month(s) later
Around 83% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 300 MHz
48x more pipelines: 96 vs 2
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
110x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 330 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	31 January 2008 vs 23 June 2003
Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	330 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Around 6% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 128 vs 121

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	128 vs 121

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

330

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

121

128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	330	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	121	128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3128
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3128

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	RS300
Launch date	31 January 2008	23 June 2003
Place in performance rating	1259	1262
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	264 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	96	2
Texture fill rate	26.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	105 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	229 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	384 MB
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	1600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory		0