NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP vs ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP and ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition 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 X1950 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 44% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
  • Around 44% higher texture fill rate: 10.4 GTexel / s vs 7.2 GTexel / s
  • Around 60% higher memory clock speed: 2000 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 450 MHz
Texture fill rate 10.4 GTexel / s vs 7.2 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed 2000 MHz vs 1250 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Name NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 151
PassMark - G2D Mark 466

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture Curie R500
Code name G71 R580+
Launch date 28 September 2006 10 September 2006
Place in performance rating not rated 331
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 450 MHz 650 MHz
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 90 nm
Texture fill rate 7.2 GTexel / s 10.4 GTexel / s
Transistor count 278 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video 2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors 1x Molex 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 9.0c 9.0c
OpenGL 2.1 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 40.0 GB / s 64.0 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1250 MHz 2000 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR4