ATI Xbox 360 GPU vs NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Comparative analysis of ATI Xbox 360 GPU and NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

ATI Xbox 360 GPU

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Xbox 360 GPU

A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm

Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512

Around 10% higher core clock speed: 550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Around 65% higher texture fill rate: 13.2 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Around 21% higher memory clock speed: 1700 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Core clock speed	550 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	13.2 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	1700 MHz vs 1400 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Xbox 360 GPU	NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GTX 512
Essentials
Architecture	TeraScale	Curie
Code name	Xenos	G70
Launch date	22 November 2005	14 November 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Launch price (MSRP)		$649
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	550 MHz
Floating-point performance	240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	240
Texture fill rate	8 GTexel / s	13.2 GTexel / s
Transistor count	232 million	302 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		108 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length		228 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0c
OpenGL	N / A	2.1
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bandwidth	22.4 GB / s	54.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	1700 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3