NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 vs ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800 and ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 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 5800

ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800

2.4x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 166 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm

Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800
GPU 2: ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800	ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP
PassMark - G3D Mark		6
PassMark - G2D Mark		151

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5800	ATI Mobility Radeon 7000 IGP
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 6
Code name	NV30	RS250
Launch date	6 March 2003	1 March 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$299
Place in performance rating	not rated	1102
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	166 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	3.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	44 Watt
Transistor count	125 million	30 million
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	213 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR
Shared memory		yes