Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile vs ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated202
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data53.52
Architectureno dataAda Lovelace (2022−2024)
GPU code nameM58, R520AD107
Market segmentLaptopMobile workstation
Release date1 March 2006 (18 years ago)26 February 2024 (less than a 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 cores242048
Core clock speed8 MHz1485 MHz
Boost clock speed550 MHz2025 MHz
Number of transistorsno data18,900 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm5 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data35 Watt
Texture fill rateno data129.6
Floating-point processing powerno data8.294 TFLOPS
ROPsno data32
TMUsno data64
Tensor Coresno data64
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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 sizelargemedium sized
Interfaceno dataPCIe 4.0 x8

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 data4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed650 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data128.0 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 dataPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectXGDDR312 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.8
OpenGLno data4.6
OpenCLno data3.0
Vulkan-1.3
CUDA-8.9

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2006 26 February 2024
Chip lithography 90 nm 5 nm

Nvidia RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, and a 1700% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Mobility Radeon X1800XT and RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Mobility Radeon X1800XT is a notebook graphics card while RTX 500 Ada Generation Mobile is a mobile workstation one.


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ATI Mobility Radeon X1800XT
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