ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GT AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (31.55GB/s vs 5.328GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce 310 OEM 's Advantages
Released 2 years late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (31W vs 40W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Nov 2009
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
GeForce 300
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
493 MHz
Memory Clock
333 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
31.55GB/s
Bandwidth
5.328GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
2
-
Shading Units
16
8
TMUs
8
8
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
32 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
3.784 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.356 GPixel/s
3.784 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.712 GTexel/s
-
-
-
-
FP32 (float)
44.86 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
40W
TDP
31W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
GT218
R420 GT
(215RAACGA12F)
GPU Variant
GT218-300-A2
R400
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
0.26 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
57 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0b (9_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.2
-
Shader Model
4.1
