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.

NVIDIA GeForce 7800 GS+ AGP

ATI Radeon X1950 CrossFire Edition

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	357
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