NVIDIA GeForce 9100 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9100 and ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL 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 9100

ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9100

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 43% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 350 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 110 nm
Around 37% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 82 vs 60
Around 83% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 345 vs 189

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 April 2007 vs 1 March 2005
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 110 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	82 vs 60
PassMark - G2D Mark	345 vs 189

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9100
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

345

189

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9100	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark	82	60
PassMark - G2D Mark	345	189
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	795
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	795

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9100	ATI Mobility Radeon X700 XL
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R400
Code name	C78	M26
Launch date	17 April 2007	1 March 2005
Place in performance rating	959	960
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	350 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	40 Watt
Transistor count	210 million	120 million
Texture fill rate		2.8 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCI	PCIe 1.0 x16
API support
DirectX	10.0	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		128 MB
Memory bandwidth		10.56 GB / s
Memory bus width		128 Bit
Memory clock speed		660 MHz
Memory type		DDR