L20 vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM58, R520AD102
Market segmentLaptopWorkstation
Release date1 March 2006 (18 years ago)16 November 2023 (1 year ago)

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 cores2411776
Core clock speed8 MHz1440 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHz2520 MHz
Number of transistorsno data76,300 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data275 Watt
Texture fill rateno data927.4
Floating-point processing powerno data59.35 TFLOPS
ROPsno data128
TMUsno data368
Tensor Coresno data368
Ray Tracing Coresno data92

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).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 16-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amountno data48 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data864.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 Connectorsno data4x DisplayPort 1.4a

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.7
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 16 November 2023
Chip lithography 90 nm 5 nm

L20 has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 1700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1800XT and L20. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X1800XT is a notebook card while L20 is a workstation one.


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