ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition vs ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition and ATI Radeon Xpress 1250 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 Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition

ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 80 nm vs 130 nm

Manufacturing process technology	80 nm vs 130 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition
GPU 2: ATI Radeon Xpress 1250

Name	ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
PassMark - G2D Mark		197
PassMark - G3D Mark		43

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 CrossFire Edition	ATI Radeon Xpress 1250
Essentials
Architecture	R400
Code name	R480
Launch date	10 September 2006	30 August 2006
Place in performance rating	not rated	890
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	80 nm
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s
Transistor count	160 million
Boost clock speed		400 MHz
Pipelines		4
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin
API support
DirectX	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	34.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3
Shared memory		1