NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra and ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP 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 Ultra

ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 month(s) later
Around 58% higher core clock speed: 475 MHz vs 300 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
11.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 34 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	23 October 2003 vs 23 June 2003
Core clock speed	475 MHz vs 300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	34 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

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 Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

126

128

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark	34	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	126	128

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 Ultra	ATI Mobility Radeon 9100 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 7
Code name	NV36 A1	RS300
Launch date	23 October 2003	23 June 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$199
Place in performance rating	1238	1239
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	475 MHz	300 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.9 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	46 Watt
Transistor count	82 million	76 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		2
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	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
Memory bandwidth	14.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2
Shared memory		0