NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX vs ATI Radeon 9200

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX and ATI Radeon 9200 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 - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
  • Around 76% higher core clock speed: 440 MHz vs 250 MHz
  • 10.6x more texture fill rate: 10.56 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 110 nm vs 150 nm
  • 4x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 128 MB
  • 2.8x more memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 135
  • 52.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 210 vs 4
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 September 2005 vs 1 May 2003
Core clock speed 440 MHz vs 250 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.56 GTexel / s vs 1 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size 512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 vs 135
PassMark - G3D Mark 210 vs 4

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9200

  • 2.3x lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 65 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 28 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9200

PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
239
135
PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
210
4
Name NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX ATI Radeon 9200
PassMark - G2D Mark 239 135
PassMark - G3D Mark 210 4
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 575
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 575

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX ATI Radeon 9200

Essentials

Architecture Curie Rage 7
Code name G70 RV280
Launch date 29 September 2005 1 May 2003
Place in performance rating 1191 1193
Type Laptop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 440 MHz
Core clock speed 440 MHz 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 110 nm 150 nm
Pipelines 24
Texture fill rate 10.56 GTexel / s 1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 65 Watt 28 Watt
Transistor count 302 million 36 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 AGP 8x
Laptop size large
Supplementary power connectors None None

API support

DirectX 9.0c 8.1
OpenGL 2.1 1.4

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 35.2 GB / s 6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 550 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1100 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type 256 DDR
Shared memory 0