Club 3D Radeon X800 PRO VIVO vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

The Radeon X800 PRO VIVO has 6 times as many ROPs than the GeForce 6200. What's more, its graphics clock speed is substantially higher, as a result, its pixel fillrate is considerably higher. Having better pixel fillrate allows the card to draw more pixels on screen and off screen, which is beneficial for some 3D effects in games, or when playing at higher display resolutions.

There are two characteristics that affect the maximum theoretical texture fillrate, graphics frequency and the number of TMUs (Texture Mapping Units). The Radeon X800 PRO VIVO has a substantial lead in this area, because not only it operates at much higher frequency, but it also has 3 times as many TMUs. Better maximum texture fill rate means that the GPU can utilize more sophisticated 3D effects and/or map more textures to each texel, which improves games visual appearance.

Memory bandwidth parameter specifies how much memory (in Gigabytes) the card can read from or write to dedicated memory per second. Cards with higher memory bandwidth have better performance at high display resolutions, or when using large and detailed textures, and/or utilizing complex 3D effects and filters, like anti-aliasing. The bandwidth depends on memory type, speed, and width of memory interface. Specifically, the Club 3D Radeon X800 PRO VIVO graphics card offers better and higher clocked memory, and wider bus interface. Consequently, it has more memory bandwidth.