NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M and ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition 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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 36% higher core clock speed: 850 MHz vs 625 MHz
Around 87% higher texture fill rate: 18.7 billion / sec vs 10 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 90 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 512 MB
11.8x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1617 vs 137

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	25 May 2010 vs 24 January 2006
Core clock speed	850 MHz vs 625 MHz
Texture fill rate	18.7 billion / sec vs 10 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 90 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 512 MB
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1617 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 11% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 458

Specifications (specs)
Memory clock speed	1450 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	507 vs 458

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1617

137

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

458

507

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	1617	137
PassMark - G2D Mark	458	507

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480M	ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi	R500
Code name	GF100	R580
Launch date	25 May 2010	24 January 2006
Place in performance rating	292	293
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	850 MHz	625 MHz
Floating-point performance	598.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	90 nm
Pipelines	352
Texture fill rate	18.7 billion / sec	10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	100 Watt	100 Watt
Transistor count	3,100 million	384 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0
Interface	MXM-B (3.0)	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
SLI options	2-way
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	12 API	9.0c
OpenCL	1.1
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	76.8 GB / s	46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	1450 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR3
Shared memory	0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
SLI