ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark.

ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT

Around 47% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 375 MHz
Around 47% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Around 8% higher memory clock speed: 1300 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 375 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s vs 6 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP

Name	ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
PassMark - G2D Mark		199
PassMark - G3D Mark		177

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Mobility Radeon X1800 XT	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS AGP
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Curie
Code name	M58	G71
Launch date	1 March 2006	2 February 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	866
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	550 MHz	375 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	8.8 GTexel / s	6 GTexel / s
Transistor count	321 million	278 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		75 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors		1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	41.6 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1300 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3