NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX vs ATI Radeon 9200 PRO

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

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

ATI Radeon 9200 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 84% higher core clock speed: 440 MHz vs 239 MHz
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
3.4x more memory clock speed: 1100 MHz vs 328 MHz
Around 77% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 239 vs 135
70x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 210 vs 3

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	29 September 2005 vs 1 May 2003
Core clock speed	440 MHz vs 239 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz vs 328 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	239 vs 135
PassMark - G3D Mark	210 vs 3

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9200 PRO

90.5x more texture fill rate: 956 MTexel / s vs 10.56 GTexel / s
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 28 Watt vs 65 Watt

Texture fill rate	956 MTexel / s vs 10.56 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	28 Watt vs 65 Watt

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

239

135

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

210

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7800 GTX	ATI Radeon 9200 PRO
PassMark - G2D Mark	239	135
PassMark - G3D Mark	210	3
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 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	Rage 7
Code name	G70	RV280
Launch date	29 September 2005	1 May 2003
Place in performance rating	1192	1195
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	440 MHz
Core clock speed	440 MHz	239 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	110 nm	150 nm
Pipelines	24
Texture fill rate	10.56 GTexel / s	956 MTexel / 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	5.25 GB / s
Memory bus width	550 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1100 MHz	328 MHz
Memory type	256	DDR
Shared memory	0