ATI Radeon X1800 XL vs NVIDIA GeForce G105M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R520 G98
GPU variant R520 XL N10M-GE1-S
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 321 million 210 million
Die size 288 mm² 86 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2005 —
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe —
Production End-of-life —
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 —
Reviews 76 in our database —
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe —
Successor Radeon R600 —

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 640 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective
Shader clock — 1600 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 32.00 GB/s 11.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 16 —
Vertex shaders 8 —
TMUs 16 4
ROPs 16 4
Shading units — 8
SM count — 1
Cache L2 — 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 8.000 GPixel/s 2.560 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.000 GVertices/s —
Texture rate 8.000 GTexel/s 2.560 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance — 25.60 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot —
Length 254 mm 10 inches —
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches —
Height 19 mm 0.7 inches —
TDP 70 W 14 W
Suggested PSU 250 W —
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin —
Board number A520 —

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL — 1.1
Vulkan — —
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA — 1.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date — Jan 8th, 2009
Generation — GeForce 100M
Production — End-of-life
Interface — PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews — 2 in our database
Predecessor — GeForce 9M
Successor — GeForce 200M

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