ATI Radeon X1900 XT vs ATI HD 3200

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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
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code nameRS780R580
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 March 2008 (16 years ago)24 January 2006 (18 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$299

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 cores40no data
Core clock speed494 MHz625 MHz
Number of transistors180 million384 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm90 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data100 Watt
Texture fill rate1.97610.00
Floating-point processing power0.03952 TFLOPSno data
ROPs416
TMUs416

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 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Lengthno data242 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-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 typeSystem SharedGDDR3
Maximum RAM amountSystem Shared256 MB
Memory bus widthSystem Shared256 Bit
Memory clock speedSystem Shared725 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data46.4 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 outputs2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)9.0c (9_3)
Shader Model4.13.0
OpenGL3.32.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)
OpenCL1.0N/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 March 2008 24 January 2006
Chip lithography 65 nm 90 nm

ATI HD 3200 has an age advantage of 2 years, and a 38.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 3200 and Radeon X1900 XT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon HD 3200 is a notebook card while Radeon X1900 XT is a desktop one.


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