NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra vs ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra and ATI Mobility Radeon 9200 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 5800 Ultra

ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra

2.5x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 200 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 32 MB
2.2x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 460 MHz

Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 460 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

200x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 4 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 9200

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
PassMark - G3D Mark		3
PassMark - G2D Mark		145

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 Ultra	ATI Mobility Radeon 9200
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 7
Code name	NV30	M9+
Launch date	6 March 2003	1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$399
Place in performance rating	not rated	1135
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	4 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	125 million	36 million
Boost clock speed		250 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Length	213 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0a	8.1
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	14.72 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	460 MHz
Memory type	GDDR2	128
Shared memory		0