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.

 

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 891
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