NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra vs ATI Radeon IGP 350M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra and ATI Radeon IGP 350M 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.

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

ATI Radeon IGP 350M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 month(s) later
Around 78% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 150 nm vs 180 nm
2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 12 vs 6
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 138 vs 136

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	6 March 2003 vs 5 October 2002
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	12 vs 6
PassMark - G2D Mark	138 vs 136

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra
GPU 2: ATI Radeon IGP 350M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

138

136

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra	ATI Radeon IGP 350M
PassMark - G3D Mark	12	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	138	136

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 Ultra	ATI Radeon IGP 350M
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 6
Code name	NV34 A2	RS200
Launch date	6 March 2003	5 October 2002
Launch price (MSRP)	$149
Place in performance rating	1176	1177
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s
Transistor count	45 million	30 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Length	171 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	650 MHz
Memory type	DDR