NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS vs ATI Radeon 9000

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS and ATI 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • 2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 16x more texture fill rate: 16 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
  • 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
  • 2x more memory clock speed: 800 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 95.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 382 vs 4
  • Around 29% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 123
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 November 2007 vs 1 July 2002
Core clock speed 500 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 16 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 800 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 382 vs 4
PassMark - G2D Mark 159 vs 123

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9000

  • Around 79% lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 50 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 28 Watt vs 50 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9000

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
382
4
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
159
123
Name NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS ATI Radeon 9000
PassMark - G3D Mark 382 4
PassMark - G2D Mark 159 123
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 1989

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS ATI Radeon 9000

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rage 7
Code name G92 RV250
Launch date 1 November 2007 1 July 2002
Place in performance rating 1251 1253
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 500 MHz 250 MHz
CUDA cores 64
Floating-point performance 160 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 64
Texture fill rate 16 GTexel / s 1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 50 Watt 28 Watt
Transistor count 754 million 36 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface MXM-HE AGP 4x
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 8.1
OpenGL 3.3 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 51.2 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 800 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0