ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum AGP

  • Around 20% higher core clock speed: 540 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 60% higher texture fill rate: 8.64 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
  • Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 67 Watt vs 89 Watt
Core clock speed 540 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 8.64 GTexel / s vs 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 67 Watt vs 89 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 Ultra

  • Around 2% higher memory clock speed: 1200 MHz vs 1180 MHz
Memory clock speed 1200 MHz vs 1180 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

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

Compare specifications (specs)

ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum 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 881
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Core clock speed 540 MHz 450 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 130 nm 130 nm
Texture fill rate 8.64 GTexel / s 5.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 67 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 37.8 GB / s 38.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 600 Bit
Memory clock speed 1180 MHz 1200 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 256
Shared memory 0