NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX vs ATI Radeon 7500 LE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX and ATI Radeon 7500 LE 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

ATI Radeon 7500 LE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 7 month(s) later
6.8x more core clock speed: 1688 MHz vs 250 MHz
28.8x more texture fill rate: 43.2 billion / sec vs 1.5 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
3.1x more memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 350 MHz

Launch date	28 March 2008 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed	1688 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	43.2 billion / sec vs 1.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 350 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7500 LE

6.1x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 140 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 140 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7500 LE

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX	ATI Radeon 7500 LE
PassMark - G2D Mark	366
PassMark - G3D Mark	769

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX	ATI Radeon 7500 LE
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	Rage 7
Code name	G92	RV200
Launch date	28 March 2008	14 August 2001
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	438	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	1688 MHz	250 MHz
CUDA cores	128
Floating-point performance	432.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	43.2 billion / sec	1.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	60 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, HDTVDual Link DVI	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 4x
Length	10.5" (26.7 cm)
SLI options	2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	8.1
OpenGL	2.1	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	70.4 GB / s	5.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	350 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI