ATI Radeon 8500 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R250 NV18C
Architecture Rage 7 Celsius
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 150 nm
Number of transistors 60 million 29 million
Die size 68 mm² 65 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Never Released Mar 6th, 2003
Generation Radeon R200 GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 4x AGP 8x
Predecessor Radeon R100 GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R300 GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 300 MHz 250 MHz
Memory clock 300 MHz 600 Mbps effective 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 9.600 GB/s 6.400 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 2
Vertex shaders 2 0
TMUs 8 4
ROPs 4 2

Performance

Pixel rate 1.200 GPixel/s 500.0 MPixel/s
Vertex rate 150.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.400 GTexel/s 1.000 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 25 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None

API Support & Features

DirectX 8.1 7.0
OpenGL 1.4 1.5
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 1.4 1.1
Vertex shader 1.1 1.1

Other Features

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