NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS vs ATI Radeon 9250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS and ATI Radeon 9250 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).

NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

ATI Radeon 9250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 8 month(s) later
2.1x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 240 MHz
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
127.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 382 vs 3
Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 159 vs 127

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 November 2007 vs 1 March 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 240 MHz
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 3
PassMark - G2D Mark	159 vs 127

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9250

60x more texture fill rate: 960 MTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	960 MTexel / s vs 16 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

382

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

159

127

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS	ATI Radeon 9250
PassMark - G3D Mark	382	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	159	127
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1989

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTS	ATI Radeon 9250
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	RV280
Launch date	1 November 2007	1 March 2004
Place in performance rating	1276	1279
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	240 MHz
CUDA cores	64
Floating-point performance	160 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	64
Texture fill rate	16 GTexel / s	960 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 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 8x
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	3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 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