ATI Radeon X1300 AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1300 AGP and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Radeon X1300 AGP

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1300 AGP

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm

Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Around 22% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 450 MHz
7.3x more texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
3.4x more memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 500 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 1.8 GTexel / s
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 500 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X1300 AGP	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
Essentials
Architecture	R500	Curie
Code name	RV515	G70
Launch date	1 December 2005	14 November 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	550 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Texture fill rate	1.8 GTexel / s	13.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	107 million	302 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		108 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None
Length		228 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	8 GB / s	54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	500 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	DDR	GDDR3