ATI Radeon X1950 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV570 G86
GPU variant RV570 XT (215PADAKA12FG) NB8M-GS
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 210 million
Die size 230 mm² 127 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 1st, 2006
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 144 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 690 MHz 1380 Mbps effective 400 MHz 800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 800 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 44.16 GB/s 6.400 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 8
ROPs 12 4
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 25.60 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 228 mm 9 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
TDP 66 W 11 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number A999-31

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date May 9th, 2007
Generation GeForce 8M (8000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-I
Predecessor GeForce Go 7
Successor GeForce 9M

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