ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP vs ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP and ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP 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 X850 XT AGP

ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Around 4% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 520 MHz
Around 4% higher texture fill rate: 8.64 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Around 3% lower typical power consumption: 67 Watt vs 69 Watt
Around 9% higher memory clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 520 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.64 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	67 Watt vs 69 Watt
Memory clock speed	1180 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP	ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP
Essentials
Architecture	R400	R400
Code name	R481	R481
Launch date	28 February 2005	28 February 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	520 MHz	540 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s	8.64 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	69 Watt	67 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	160 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0b
OpenGL	2.0	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	34.6 GB / s	37.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	1180 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3