NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 vs ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300 and ATI Mobility FireGL 7800 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 PCX 5300

ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 4 month(s) later
Around 16% higher core clock speed: 325 MHz vs 280 MHz
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 63% higher memory clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 20% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 6 vs 5
2.3x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 197 vs 86

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	17 February 2004 vs 29 September 2001
Core clock speed	325 MHz vs 280 MHz
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	6 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	197 vs 86

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

430.8x more texture fill rate: 560 MTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Texture fill rate	560 MTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300
GPU 2: ATI Mobility FireGL 7800

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

197

Name	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
PassMark - G3D Mark	6	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	197	86

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce PCX 5300	ATI Mobility FireGL 7800
Essentials
Architecture	Rankine	Rage 7
Code name	NV37	M7
Launch date	17 February 2004	29 September 2001
Place in performance rating	930	1475
Type	Desktop	Mobile workstation
Technical info
Core clock speed	325 MHz	280 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.3 GTexel / s	560 MTexel / s
Transistor count	45 million	60 million
Boost clock speed		280 MHz
Pipelines		2
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		27 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None
Laptop size		medium sized
API support
DirectX	9.0a	7.0
OpenGL	1.5 (2.1)	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	10.4 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	200 Bit
Memory clock speed	650 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	64 / 128
Shared memory		0