NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra vs ATI Radeon X800 XL

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra and ATI Radeon X800 XL 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.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

ATI Radeon X800 XL

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 5 month(s) later
Around 53% higher core clock speed: 612 MHz vs 400 MHz
6.1x more texture fill rate: 39.2 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 90 nm vs 110 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 10% higher memory clock speed: 1080 MHz vs 980 MHz
9.3x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 643 vs 69

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2 May 2007 vs 1 December 2004
Core clock speed	612 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec vs 6.4 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm vs 110 nm
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz vs 980 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	643 vs 69

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon X800 XL

3.5x lower typical power consumption: 49 Watt vs 171 Watt
Around 8% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 271 vs 252

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	49 Watt vs 171 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	271 vs 252

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
GPU 2: ATI Radeon X800 XL

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

643

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

252

271

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	ATI Radeon X800 XL
PassMark - G3D Mark	643	69
PassMark - G2D Mark	252	271

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra	ATI Radeon X800 XL
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	R400
Code name	G80	R430
Launch date	2 May 2007	1 December 2004
Launch price (MSRP)	$829
Place in performance rating	615	619
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	612 MHz	400 MHz
CUDA cores	612
Floating-point performance	387.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	110 nm
Pipelines	128
Texture fill rate	39.2 billion / sec	6.4 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	171 Watt	49 Watt
Transistor count	681 million	160 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	9.0b
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	103.7 GB / s	31.36 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	980 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Technologies
SLI