NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT vs ATI Radeon 9200 SE

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT and ATI Radeon 9200 SE 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 ZT

ATI Radeon 9200 SE

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 month(s) later
Around 63% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 200 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
2.1x more memory clock speed: 700 MHz vs 332 MHz
11x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 33 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 May 2003 vs 1 March 2003
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	700 MHz vs 332 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	33 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9200 SE

615.4x more texture fill rate: 800 MTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	800 MTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9200 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

129

Name	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT	ATI Radeon 9200 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark	33	3
PassMark - G2D Mark	129	129

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce FX 5900 ZT	ATI Radeon 9200 SE
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 7
Code name	NV35	RV280
Launch date	12 May 2003	1 March 2003
Place in performance rating	1221	1222
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz	200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s	800 MTexel / s
Transistor count	135 million	36 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		28 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
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	2.656 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	332 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR