NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX vs ATI Radeon X800 XL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX and ATI Radeon X800 XL 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.

NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

ATI Radeon X800 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 25% higher core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 88% higher texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
Around 9% lower typical power consumption: 45 Watt vs 49 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 980 MHz
3.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 270 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	18 April 2006 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt vs 49 Watt
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 980 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	270 vs 69

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XL

Around 3% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 271 vs 264

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	271 vs 264

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XL

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

264

271

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

270

Name	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX	ATI Radeon X800 XL
PassMark - G2D Mark	264	271
PassMark - G3D Mark	270	69

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX	ATI Radeon X800 XL
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R400
Code name	G71	R430
Launch date	18 April 2006	1 December 2004
Place in performance rating	618	619
Type	Laptop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	500 MHz
Core clock speed	500 MHz	400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	24
Texture fill rate	12 GTexel / s	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	45 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	278 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Laptop size	large
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	38.4 GB / s	31.36 GB / s
Memory bus width	600 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1200 MHz	980 MHz
Memory type	256	GDDR3
Shared memory	0