ATI Radeon X1900 G5 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 505 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580 GT216
GPU variant R580 XL (215BAEBKA31FG)
Architecture R500 Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 486 million
Die size 352 mm² 100 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 6th, 2006 Feb 17th, 2013
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 500
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 349 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 400
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 600

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 615 MHz
Memory clock 600 MHz 1200 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1031 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 38.40 GB/s 22.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 12
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 24
SM count 3
Cache L2 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 4.920 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 7.380 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 49.49 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 75 W 25 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.1
CUDA 1.2

Other Features

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