NVIDIA GeForce G103M vs ATI Radeon 7500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G103M and ATI Radeon 7500 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G103M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 8 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • 2.2x more core clock speed: 640 MHz vs 290 MHz
  • 2.9x more texture fill rate: 5.12 GTexel / s vs 1.74 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 65 nm vs 150 nm
  • Around 64% lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 64 MB
  • 2.2x more memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 460 MHz
  • 21x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 63 vs 3
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 1 September 2009 vs 14 August 2001
Core clock speed 640 MHz vs 290 MHz
Texture fill rate 5.12 GTexel / s vs 1.74 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm vs 150 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 23 Watt
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz vs 460 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 63 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7500

  • Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 35 vs 34
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 35 vs 34

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G103M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 7500

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
34
35
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
63
3
Name NVIDIA GeForce G103M ATI Radeon 7500
PassMark - G2D Mark 34 35
PassMark - G3D Mark 63 3

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce G103M ATI Radeon 7500

Essentials

Architecture Tesla Rage 7
Code name G98 RV200
Launch date 1 September 2009 14 August 2001
Place in performance rating 1655 1658
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 640 MHz 290 MHz
Floating-point performance 25.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 65 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 8
Texture fill rate 5.12 GTexel / s 1.74 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 60 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors None

API support

DirectX 10.0 8.1
OpenGL 3.3 1.3

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 8 GB / s 7.36 GB / s
Memory bus width 64 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1000 MHz 460 MHz
Memory type DDR2 DDR