ATI Radeon X850 XT Platinum vs GeForce 8800 Ultra

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	936	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.02	no data
Power efficiency	0.67	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name	G80	R480
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	2 May 2007 (17 years ago)	21 December 2004 (19 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$829	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	612	no data
Core clock speed	612 MHz	540 MHz
Number of transistors	681 million	160 million
Manufacturing process technology	90 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	171 Watt	67 Watt
Texture fill rate	39.17	8.640
Floating-point processing power	0.3871 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	24	16
TMUs	32	16

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	270 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	2x 6-pin	1x 6-pin
SLI options	+	-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	1080 MHz	590 MHz
Memory bandwidth	103.7 GB/s	37.76 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	9.0b (9_2)
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	2 May 2007	21 December 2004
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Chip lithography	90 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	171 Watt	67 Watt

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