ATI Radeon X1950 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580+ G86
GPU variant R580+ XT (215BAABKA31FG) NB8M-GS
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 80 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 210 million
Die size 352 mm² 127 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 17th, 2006
Generation Radeon R500 AGP
Production End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x
Reviews 144 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 AGP
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 625 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 703 MHz 1406 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 44.99 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 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 10.00 GPixel/s 1.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.250 GVertices/s
Texture rate 10.00 GTexel/s 3.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 25.60 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot MXM Module
TDP 96 W 11 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin

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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