ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP vs ATI Radeon 7000 PCI

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP and ATI Radeon 7000 PCI 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 Platinum AGP

ATI Radeon 7000 PCI

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 0 month(s) later
4.1x more core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 133 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 180 nm
8x more maximum memory size: 256 MB vs 32 MB
4.4x more memory clock speed: 1180 MHz vs 266 MHz

Launch date	28 February 2005 vs 19 February 2001
Core clock speed	540 MHz vs 133 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 180 nm
Maximum memory size	256 MB vs 32 MB
Memory clock speed	1180 MHz vs 266 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 7000 PCI

46.2x more texture fill rate: 399 MTexel / s vs 8.64 GTexel / s
2.9x lower typical power consumption: 23 Watt vs 67 Watt

Texture fill rate	399 MTexel / s vs 8.64 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	23 Watt vs 67 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP	ATI Radeon 7000 PCI
Essentials
Architecture	R400	Rage 6
Code name	R481	RV100
Launch date	28 February 2005	19 February 2001
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	540 MHz	133 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	180 nm
Texture fill rate	8.64 GTexel / s	399 MTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	67 Watt	23 Watt
Transistor count	160 million	30 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	PCI
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	None
API support
DirectX	9.0b	7.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	32 MB
Memory bandwidth	37.8 GB / s	2.128 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1180 MHz	266 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR