NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX and ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP 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 GTX

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 6 month(s) later
Around 67% higher core clock speed: 500 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
57.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 462 vs 8
Around 22% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 175 vs 143

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 November 2007 vs 1 May 2003
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 300 MHz
Pipelines	96 vs 2
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	462 vs 8
PassMark - G2D Mark	175 vs 143

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

462

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

175

143

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	462	8
PassMark - G2D Mark	175	143
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	2485
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	2485

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800M GTX	ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	RS300
Launch date	1 November 2007	1 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1145	1146
Type	Laptop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	300 MHz
CUDA cores	96
Floating-point performance	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	96	2
Texture fill rate	24 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	65 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		300 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	MXM-HE	AGP 8x
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	3.3	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	51.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory	0	0
Technologies
Gigathread technology
HDCP-capable
HDR (High Dynamic-Range Lighting)
PCI-E 16x
PowerMizer 7.0
SLI