P102-100 vs ATI Radeon X850 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
ArchitectureR400 (2004−2008)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameR480GP102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 December 2004 (19 years ago)12 February 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 data3200
Core clock speed520 MHz1582 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1683 MHz
Number of transistors160 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)69 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate8.320336.6
Floating-point processing powerno data10.77 TFLOPS
ROPs1680
TMUs16200

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 3.0 x4
Lengthno data267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount256 MB5 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed540 MHz1376 MHz
Memory bandwidth34.56 GB/s440.3 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.

DirectX9.0b (9_2)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2004 12 February 2018
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 5 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 69 Watt 250 Watt

ATI X850 XT has 262.3% lower power consumption.

P102-100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 13 years, a 1900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 712.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X850 XT and P102-100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X850 XT is a desktop card while P102-100 is a workstation one.


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