ATI Radeon X1900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 205 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580 GT218
GPU variant R580 XT (215BADBKA22FG) GT218-200-B1
Architecture R500 Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 260 million
Die size 352 mm² 57 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date 2006 Nov 26th, 2009
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 9
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 400

Clocks

GPU clock 625 MHz 589 MHz
Memory clock 725 MHz 1450 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1402 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 46.40 GB/s 6.400 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 48
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 16 8
ROPs 16 4
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 10.00 GPixel/s 2.356 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.250 GVertices/s
Texture rate 10.00 GTexel/s 4.712 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 44.86 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
Length 242 mm 9.5 inches 168 mm 6.6 inches
TDP 100 W 31 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x DisplayPort1x VGA
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number A520 P690

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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