NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 vs ATI Radeon X300

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 and ATI Radeon X300 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, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 3.2x more core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 375 MHz
  • 17.8x more texture fill rate: 26.7 billion / sec vs 1.5 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 110 nm
  • 16x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 64 MB
  • 4x more memory clock speed: 1603 MHz (3206 data rate) vs 400 MHz
  • 64.6x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 2650 vs 41
  • 2.1x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 441 vs 209
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 May 2010 vs 1 September 2004
Core clock speed 1215 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate 26.7 billion / sec vs 1.5 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 1603 MHz (3206 data rate) vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 2650 vs 41
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 vs 209

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X300

  • 5.6x lower typical power consumption: 36 Watt vs 200 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 36 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X300

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
2650
41
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
441
209
Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 ATI Radeon X300
PassMark - G3D Mark 2650 41
PassMark - G2D Mark 441 209
Geekbench - OpenCL 9276
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 19.079
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 741.303
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 2.516
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.513
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 64.492
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 2999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3660
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3321
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 2999
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3660
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3321

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 ATI Radeon X300

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rage 9
Code name GF100 RV370
Launch date 31 May 2010 1 September 2004
Launch price (MSRP) $279
Place in performance rating 842 845
Price now $263.28
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 12.73

Technical info

Compute performance 30x
Core clock speed 1215 MHz 375 MHz
CUDA cores 352
Floating-point performance 855.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 110 nm
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C
Pipelines 352
Texture fill rate 26.7 billion / sec 1.5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 200 Watt 36 Watt
Transistor count 3,100 million 107 million

Video outputs and ports

Audio input for HDMI Internal
Display Connectors Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI, 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bus support PCI-E 2.0 x 16
Height 4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 9.5" (241 mm) (24.1 cm)
SLI options 2-way3-way
Supplementary power connectors Two 6-pins

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.2 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 102.6 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1603 MHz (3206 data rate) 400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR

Technologies

3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround