NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra and ATI Radeon X1900 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, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 3 month(s) later
  • 3.9x more texture fill rate: 39.2 billion / sec vs 10 GTexel / s
  • 4.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 643 vs 137
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 2 May 2007 vs 24 January 2006
Texture fill rate 39.2 billion / sec vs 10 GTexel / s
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 643 vs 137

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

  • Around 2% higher core clock speed: 625 MHz vs 612 MHz
  • Around 71% lower typical power consumption: 100 Watt vs 171 Watt
  • Around 34% higher memory clock speed: 1450 MHz vs 1080 MHz
  • 2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 507 vs 252
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 625 MHz vs 612 MHz
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 100 Watt vs 171 Watt
Memory clock speed 1450 MHz vs 1080 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark 507 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
643
137
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
252
507
Name NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark 643 137
PassMark - G2D Mark 252 507

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition

Essentials

Architecture Tesla R500
Code name G80 R580
Launch date 2 May 2007 24 January 2006
Launch price (MSRP) $829
Place in performance rating 624 294
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 612 MHz 625 MHz
CUDA cores 612
Floating-point performance 387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 90 nm 90 nm
Pipelines 128
Texture fill rate 39.2 billion / sec 10 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 171 Watt 100 Watt
Transistor count 681 million 384 million

Video outputs and ports

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

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Length 270 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin 1x 6-pin

API support

DirectX 10.0 9.0c
OpenGL 3.3 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 103.7 GB / s 46.4 GB / s
Memory bus width 384 Bit 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 1080 MHz 1450 MHz
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3

Technologies

SLI