ATI Radeon 9800 XT vs ATI Mobility X1800XT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataRage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameM58, R520R360
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date1 March 2006 (18 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year ago)

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 cores24no data
Core clock speed8 MHz412 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data117 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.296
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data8

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x Molex

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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amountno data256 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz365 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data23.36 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR39.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 1 October 2003
Chip lithography 90 nm 150 nm

ATI Mobility X1800XT has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 66.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1800XT and Radeon 9800 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X1800XT is a notebook card while Radeon 9800 XT is a desktop one.


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