NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT vs ATI Radeon IGP 350M

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT and ATI Radeon IGP 350M 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 5900 XT

ATI Radeon IGP 350M

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 400 MHz vs 183 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
6.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 40 vs 6

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 May 2003 vs 5 October 2002
Core clock speed	400 MHz vs 183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	40 vs 6

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon IGP 350M

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 136 vs 134

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	136 vs 134

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon IGP 350M

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

134

136

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT	ATI Radeon IGP 350M
PassMark - G3D Mark	40	6
PassMark - G2D Mark	134	136

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 XT	ATI Radeon IGP 350M
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 6
Code name	NV35	RS200
Launch date	12 May 2003	5 October 2002
Place in performance rating	1181	1184
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	400 MHz	183 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt
Transistor count	135 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
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.4
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz
Memory type	DDR