NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT vs ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT 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 5900 ZT

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • Around 41% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 230 MHz
  • 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
  • Around 84% higher memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 380 MHz
  • 5.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 33 vs 6
  • Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 129 vs 128
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 12 May 2003 vs 30 August 2001
Core clock speed 325 MHz vs 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 700 MHz vs 380 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 33 vs 6
PassMark - G2D Mark 129 vs 128

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

  • Around 42% higher texture fill rate: 1.84 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate 1.84 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
GPU 2: ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
33
6
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
129
128
Name NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV
PassMark - G3D Mark 33 6
PassMark - G2D Mark 129 128

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 8500DV

Essentials

Architecture Rankine Rage 7
Code name NV35 R200
Launch date 12 May 2003 30 August 2001
Place in performance rating 1221 1223
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 325 MHz 230 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 150 nm
Texture fill rate 1.3 GTexel / s 1.84 GTexel / s
Transistor count 135 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
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 22.4 GB / s 6.08 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 700 MHz 380 MHz
Memory type DDR DDR