NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra vs ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 1 month(s) later
  • 2.1x more core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 230 MHz
  • Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
  • 2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
  • 2.4x more memory clock speed: 900 MHz vs 380 MHz
  • 5.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 34 vs 6
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 23 October 2003 vs 30 August 2001
Core clock speed 475 MHz vs 230 MHz
Texture fill rate 1.9 GTexel / s vs 1.84 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 900 MHz vs 380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 34 vs 6

Reasons to consider the ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

  • Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 128 vs 126
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 128 vs 126

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra
GPU 2: ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
34
6
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
126
128
Name NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV
PassMark - G3D Mark 34 6
PassMark - G2D Mark 126 128

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

Essentials

Architecture Rankine Rage 7
Code name NV36 A1 R200
Launch date 23 October 2003 30 August 2001
Launch price (MSRP) $199
Place in performance rating 1235 1238
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 475 MHz 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 150 nm
Texture fill rate 1.9 GTexel / s 1.84 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 46 Watt
Transistor count 82 million 60 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 1x DVI, 1x VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Length 229 mm
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex None

API support

DirectX 9.0a 8.1
OpenGL 1.5 (2.1) 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 14.4 GB / s 6.08 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz 380 MHz
Memory type GDDR2 DDR