ATI Radeon X1950 PRO DUAL vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS 640

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV570 G80
GPU variant RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG) G80-100-K0-A2
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 90 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 681 million
Die size 230 mm² 484 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 10th, 2007 Nov 8th, 2006
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 8
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 349 USD 449 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 144 in our database 403 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 7 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 9

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 513 MHz
Memory clock 690 MHz 1380 Mbps effective 792 MHz 1584 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1188 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 640 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 320 bit
Bandwidth 44.16 GB/s 63.36 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 24
ROPs 12 20
Shading units 96
SM count 12
Cache L2 80 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 10.26 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 24.62 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 228.1 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 300 mm 11.8 inches 267 mm 10.5 inches
TDP 130 W 143 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 300 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin 1x 6-pin
Board number P356

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 (1.0)
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.0

Other Features

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