Radeon R4 Graphics vs GeForce 7800 GT

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1192not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.01no data
Power efficiency0.68no data
ArchitectureCurie (2003−2013)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameG70Beema
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 August 2005 (19 years ago)11 June 2014 (10 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 data128
Core clock speed400 MHz800 MHz
Number of transistors302 million930 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate8.0006.400
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2048 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs208

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 x16IGP
Length226 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount256 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed500 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth32 GB/sno data

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.

DirectX9.0c (9_3)12 (12_0)
Shader Model3.06.3
OpenGL2.14.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2.131

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 August 2005 11 June 2014
Chip lithography 110 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

R4 Graphics has an age advantage of 8 years, a 292.9% more advanced lithography process, and 333.3% lower power consumption.

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