ATI Radeon X1800 XT vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 160M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R520 G98
GPU variant R520 XT (215RFNBKA15FG) NB9M-GS
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
Launch price 549 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 76 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 580 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1450 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 44.80 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 9.600 GPixel/s 2.320 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.200 GVertices/s
Texture rate 9.600 GTexel/s 2.320 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 23.20 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
TDP 113 W 12 W
Suggested PSU 300 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 Aug 15th, 2008
Generation NVS Mobile
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-I
Reviews 26 in our database

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