NVIDIA GeForce 800M vs ATI FireGL X3-256
What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce 800M and ATI FireGL X3-256. Find out which graphics card has better performance.
Graphics Processor (GPU)
| GF117 | GPU Name | R420 |
| N14M-GL | Model number | R420 GL |
| Fermi 2.0 | Architecture | R400 |
| TSMC | Foundry | TSMC |
| 28 nm | Process Size | 130 nm |
| 585 million | Transistors | 160 million |
| 116 mm² | Die Size | 281 mm² |
Graphics Card
| Mar 17th, 2014 | Release Date | Aug 3rd, 2004 |
| GeForce 800M | Family | FireGL (9000) |
| End-of-life | Production | End-of-life |
| PCIe 2.0 x16 | Bus Interface | AGP 8x |
Memory
| 1024 MB | Memory Size | 256 MB |
| DDR3 | Memory Type | GDDR3 |
| 64 bit | Memory Bus | 256 bit |
| 14.40 GB/s | Bandwidth | 29.06 GB/s |
Performance
| 1.476 GPixel/s | Pixel fillrate | 5.892 GPixel/s |
| 5.904 GTexel/s | Texture fillrate | 5.892 GTexel/s |
Clock Speeds
| 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective | Memory Clock | 454 MHz 908 Mbps effective |
| 738 MHz | GPU Clock | 491 MHz |
Render Config
| 8 | TMUs | 12 |
| 8 | ROPs | 12 |
Board Design
| 15 W | Thermal design power (TDP) | 57 W |
| No outputs | Display Connectors | 2x DVI 1x S-Video |
API support
| 12 (11_0) | DirectX | 9.0b (9_2) |
| 4.6 | OpenGL | 2.1 |
| 1.1 | OpenCL | N/A |
| N/A | Vulkan | N/A |