NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE vs ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE and ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB 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 5700 LE

ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 51% higher core clock speed: 250 MHz vs 166 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 20% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 332 MHz

Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 1 April 2000
Core clock speed	250 MHz vs 166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 332 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

996x more texture fill rate: 996 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	996 MTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB
PassMark - G3D Mark	25
PassMark - G2D Mark	147

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	ATI Radeon 7200 64 MB
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 6
Code name	NV36 A1	R100
Launch date	1 March 2004	1 April 2000
Place in performance rating	1147	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	996 MTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	30 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		23 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	5.31 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR