NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512 and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 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 GTS 512

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 3 month(s) later
2.7x more core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 240 MHz
32x more pipelines: 128 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
4.1x more memory clock speed: 1640 MHz vs 400 MHz
189.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 568 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	11 December 2007 vs 1 September 2002
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 240 MHz
Pipelines	128 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1640 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	568 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

23.1x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 41.6 GTexel / s
Around 44% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 111 vs 77

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 41.6 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	111 vs 77

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

568

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

111

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark	568	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	77	111
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3342
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3342

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 512	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	M9
Launch date	11 December 2007	1 September 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$349
Place in performance rating	1315	1317
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	240 MHz
Floating-point performance	416.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	128	4
Texture fill rate	41.6 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	135 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		240 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	254 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	52.5 GB / s	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1640 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	128
Shared memory		0