Tesla S1075 vs ATI Radeon X1800 XT

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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
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameR520GT200B
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 October 2005 (19 years ago)1 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$549 no data

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 coresno data240
Core clock speed600 MHz610 MHz
Number of transistors321 million1,400 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)113 Watt800 Watt
Texture fill rate9.60048.80
Floating-point processing powerno data0.6221 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs1680

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).

InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit512 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth44.8 GB/s102.4 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2005 1 June 2008
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 4 GB
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 113 Watt 800 Watt

ATI X1800 XT has 608% lower power consumption.

Tesla S1075, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 2 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 63.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1800 XT and Tesla S1075. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1800 XT is a desktop card while Tesla S1075 is a workstation one.


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