Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile vs ATI Radeon X1900 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1268not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.35no data
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Xe-LPG (2023)
GPU code nameR580Meteor Lake GT1
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 May 2006 (18 years ago)14 December 2023 (1 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 coresno data384
Core clock speed575 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors384 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology90 nm10 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rate6.90043.20
Floating-point processing powerno data1.382 TFLOPS
ROPs128
TMUs1224

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 x16Ring Bus
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed600 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth38.4 GB/sno data
Shared memory-+

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-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_1)
Shader Model3.06.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 May 2006 14 December 2023
Chip lithography 90 nm 10 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 28 Watt

Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 800% more advanced lithography process, and 167.9% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1900 GT and Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1900 GT is a desktop card while Arc Graphics 48EU Mobile is a notebook one.


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