GeForce 205 OEM vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1332not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.42no data
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameR423GT218
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 December 2007 (16 years ago)26 November 2009 (15 years 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 data16
Core clock speed400 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors160 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)49 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate4.8004.712
Floating-point processing powerno data0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs124
TMUs128

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
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDRDDR2
Maximum RAM amount128 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed350 MHz400 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s6.4 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0b (9_2)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 December 2007 26 November 2009
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 49 Watt 31 Watt

205 OEM has an age advantage of 1 year, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 225% more advanced lithography process, and 58.1% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X800 GTO and GeForce 205 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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