NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A vs ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A and ATI Radeon X1300 PRO 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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 850A

ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 50% higher core clock speed: 902 MHz vs 600 MHz
15.6x more texture fill rate: 37.44 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 80 nm
16x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 128 MB
2.3x more memory clock speed: 1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
12.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 1050 vs 84
Around 76% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 551 vs 313

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 March 2014 vs 1 November 2006
Core clock speed	902 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	37.44 GTexel / s vs 2.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm vs 80 nm
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz vs 800 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050 vs 84
PassMark - G2D Mark	551 vs 313

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

Around 45% lower typical power consumption: 31 Watt vs 45 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	31 Watt vs 45 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1300 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1050

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

551

313

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A	ATI Radeon X1300 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	1050	84
PassMark - G2D Mark	551	313
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	3857
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	2957
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	2957
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3351
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850A	ATI Radeon X1300 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Maxwell	R500
Code name	GM107	RV516
Launch date	17 March 2014	1 November 2006
Place in performance rating	513	516
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	936 MHz
Core clock speed	902 MHz	600 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,198 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	80 nm
Pipelines	640
Texture fill rate	37.44 GTexel / s	2.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	31 Watt
Transistor count	1,870 million	107 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0c
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	28.8 GB / s	12.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1800 MHz	800 MHz
Memory type	DDR3	DDR