Radeon X850 XT and Radeon 9800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon X850 XT vs Radeon 9800 XT
Radeon X850 XT
83
Radeon 9800 XT
58
Radeon X850 XT
Radeon 9800 XT
Architecture
R400 (2004−2008)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
R480
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2004
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x Molex
Core clock speed
520 MHz
412 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
130 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
160 million
117 million
Power consumption (TDP)
69 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.320
3.296
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1080 MHz
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
34.56 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
9.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
2.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A