ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA Quadro FX 550
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO AGP and 128MB VRAM Quadro FX 550 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
More VRAM (256GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (31.36GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
NVIDIA Quadro FX 550 's Advantages
Lower TDP (30W vs 49W)
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Apr 2006
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
Quadro FX Curie
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
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490 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
128MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
31.36GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
12
TMUs
8
12
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
1.440 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.880 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
30W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
NV43
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
NV43 GL
R400
Architecture
Curie
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
0.146 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
154 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0b (9_2)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
2.1
OpenGL
2.0 (full)
2.1 (partial)
N/A
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
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-
-
-
Shader Model
3.0
