ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition vs ATI Xbox 360 GPU

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition and ATI Xbox 360 GPU 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 X1800 CrossFire Edition

ATI Xbox 360 GPU

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition

Around 20% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 20% higher texture fill rate: 9.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X1800 CrossFire Edition	ATI Xbox 360 GPU
Essentials
Architecture	R500	TeraScale
Code name	R520	Xenos
Launch date	20 December 2005	22 November 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	600 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	90 nm
Texture fill rate	9.6 GTexel / s	8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	113 Watt
Transistor count	321 million	232 million
Floating-point performance		240 gflops
Pipelines		240
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	N / A
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB / s	22.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1400 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3