ATI Radeon X1950 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX

What is the difference between ATI Radeon X1950 XT AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

R580+GPU NameG70
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
Model numberGF-7800-GTX-A2
R500ArchitectureCurie
TSMCFoundryTSMC
90 nmProcess Size110 nm
384 millionTransistors302 million
352 mm²Die Size333 mm²

Graphics Card

Oct 17th, 2006Release DateJun 22nd, 2005
Radeon R500 AGP
(X1950)
FamilyGeForce 7 PCIe
(7800)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
Radeon R400 AGPPredecessorGeForce 6 PCIe
AGP 8xBus InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16

Memory

256 MBMemory Size256 MB
GDDR3Memory TypeGDDR3
256 bitMemory Bus256 bit
44.99 GB/sBandwidth38.40 GB/s

Performance

10.00 GPixel/sPixel fillrate6.880 GPixel/s
1.250 GVertices/sVertex fillrate860.0 MVertices/s
10.00 GTexel/sTexture fillrate10.32 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

703 MHz
1406 Mbps effective
Memory Clock600 MHz
1200 Mbps effective
625 MHzGPU Clock430 MHz

Render Config

16TMUs24
16ROPs16
48Pixel Shaders24
8Vertex Shaders8

Board Design

Dual-slotSlot WidthSingle-slot
96 WThermal design power (TDP)86 W
250 WSuggested PSU250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Display Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

9.0c (9_3)DirectX9.0c (9_3)
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
OpenGL2.1
N/AOpenCLN/A
N/AVulkanN/A
3.0Shader Model3.0