ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP and NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra 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 - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP

NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 450 MHz
Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 8.32 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Around 29% lower typical power consumption: 69 Watt vs 89 Watt

Core clock speed	520 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	69 Watt vs 89 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Around 11% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Memory clock speed	1200 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Name	ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
PassMark - G3D Mark		138
PassMark - G2D Mark		198

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP	NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Curie
Code name	R481	NV41
Launch date	28 February 2005	24 February 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	883
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Core clock speed	520 MHz	450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	8.32 GTexel / s	5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	69 Watt	89 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	222 million
Boost clock speed		450 MHz
Pipelines		12
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
Laptop size		large
API support
DirectX	9.0b	9.0c
OpenGL	2.0	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	34.6 GB / s	38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	600 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	256
Shared memory		0