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).

NVIDIA GeForce G205M

ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP

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

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	1025	1028
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