NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE vs ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE and ATI Radeon 9600 XT 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 9600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later

Launch date	1 March 2004 vs 1 October 2003

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 250 MHz
2x more texture fill rate: 2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 40% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 25

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 25

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	25	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	147

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 LE	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 9
Code name	NV36 A1	RV360
Launch date	1 March 2004	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1114	1116
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	250 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	1 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	82 million	76 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		22 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	9.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	3.2 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	400 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR