NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 vs ATI FireGL V3200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700 and ATI FireGL V3200 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.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

ATI FireGL V3200

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 11 month(s) later
2.7x more texture fill rate: 5.4 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
Around 43% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 700 MHz
Around 74% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 148 vs 85

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 August 2006 vs 1 September 2004
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 700 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	148 vs 85

Reasons to consider the ATI FireGL V3200

Around 11% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 2% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 236 vs 232

Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 450 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	236 vs 232

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700
GPU 2: ATI FireGL V3200

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

148

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

232

236

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700	ATI FireGL V3200
PassMark - G3D Mark	148	85
PassMark - G2D Mark	232	236

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7700	ATI FireGL V3200
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 9
Code name	G73	RV380
Launch date	1 August 2006	1 September 2004
Place in performance rating	741	731
Type	Laptop	Workstation
Technical info
Boost clock speed	450 MHz
Core clock speed	450 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	12
Texture fill rate	5.4 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	177 million	75 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		46 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	medium sized
Supplementary power connectors		None
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	16 GB / s	11.2 GB / s
Memory bus width	500 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz	700 MHz
Memory type	128	DDR
Shared memory	0