NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP vs ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP and ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP

ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
Around 8% higher texture fill rate: 9 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 130 nm
Around 22% higher memory clock speed: 1320 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Launch date	2 April 2006 vs 28 February 2005
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s vs 8.32 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 130 nm
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz vs 1080 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP

Around 16% higher core clock speed: 520 MHz vs 450 MHz

Core clock speed	520 MHz vs 450 MHz

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GS AGP	ATI Radeon X850 XT AGP
Essentials
Architecture	Curie	R400
Code name	G71	R481
Launch date	2 April 2006	28 February 2005
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	450 MHz	520 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Texture fill rate	9 GTexel / s	8.32 GTexel / s
Transistor count	278 million	160 million
Thermal Design Power (TDP)		69 Watt
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors	1x Molex	1x Molex
API support
DirectX	9.0c	9.0b
OpenGL	2.1	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	42.2 GB / s	34.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1320 MHz	1080 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3