NVIDIA GeForce G205M vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce G205M and ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 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, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce G205M

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • Around 13% higher core clock speed: 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
  • 3.5x lower typical power consumption: 14 Watt vs 49 Watt
  • Around 81% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 294 vs 162
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 8 January 2009 vs 1 October 2005
Core clock speed 450 MHz vs 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt vs 49 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 294 vs 162

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

  • Around 25% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 115 vs 92
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 115 vs 92

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce G205M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
294
162
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
92
115
Name NVIDIA GeForce G205M ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP
PassMark - G2D Mark 294 162
PassMark - G3D Mark 92 115
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 989
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 989

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce G205M ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

Essentials

Architecture Tesla R400
Code name MCP79MX R430
Launch date 8 January 2009 1 October 2005
Place in performance rating 1034 1036
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 14 Watt 49 Watt
Transistor count 210 million 160 million
Texture fill rate 4.8 GTexel / s

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 8x
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0b
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 256 MB
Memory bandwidth 31.36 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 980 MHz
Memory type GDDR3