NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295 and ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
120x more pipelines: 2x 240 vs 4
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 80 nm
27.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1201 vs 43

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	8 January 2009 vs 30 August 2006
Pipelines	2x 240 vs 4
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 80 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1201 vs 43

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 197 vs 96

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	197 vs 96

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1201

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

197

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
PassMark - G3D Mark	1201	43
PassMark - G2D Mark	96	197
Geekbench - OpenCL	21048
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3443
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3443
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3107
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3107

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 295	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla 2.0
Code name	GT200B
Launch date	8 January 2009	30 August 2006
Launch price (MSRP)	$500
Place in performance rating	920	922
Price now	$159.99
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Value for money (0-100)	8.53
Technical info
Core clock speed	1242 MHz
CUDA cores	480
CUDA cores per GPU	240
Floating-point performance	2x 596.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	80 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	2x 240	4
Texture fill rate	92.2 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	289 Watt
Transistor count	1,400 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x HDMI, Two Dual Link DVIHDMI
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	10.5" (267 mm) (26.7 cm)
SLI options	Quad
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin & 8-pin
API support
DirectX	10.0
OpenGL	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	1792 MB
Memory bandwidth	223.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	896 Bit
Memory clock speed	999 MHz
Memory interface width per GPU	448 Bit
Memory type	GDDR3
Standard memory config per GPU	896 MB
Shared memory		1
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
High Dynamic-Range Lighting (HDRR)	128bit
SLI