NVIDIA NVS 300 vs ATI Radeon X1550

VS

NVIDIA NVS 300

ATI Radeon X1550

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM NVS 300 and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA NVS 300 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (18W vs 27W)

ATI Radeon X1550 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (12.80GB/s vs 12.64GB/s)

Score

NVS 300

VS

Radeon X1550

Graphics Card

Jan 2011

Release Date

Jan 2007

NVS

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

790 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

12.64GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

2

SM Count

-

16

Shading Units

-

8

TMUs

4

ROPs

4

-

32 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

2.080 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.200 GPixel/s

4.160 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.200 GTexel/s

-

39.36 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

18W

TDP

27W

200 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DMS-59

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GT218

GPU Name

RV516

GT218-670-B1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

40 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.26 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

57 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_1)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.2

CUDA

-

4.1

Shader Model

3.0

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