ATI Radeon 9500 vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700 EP

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R300 NV36
Architecture Rage 8 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 110 million 82 million
Die size 215 mm² 133 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 1st, 2003 Sep 1st, 2004
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 2 in our database 6 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 275 MHz 425 MHz
Memory clock 270 MHz 540 Mbps effective 200 MHz 400 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 64 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 17.28 GB/s 3.200 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 4
Vertex shaders 4 3
TMUs 4 4
ROPs 4 4

Performance

Pixel rate 1.100 GPixel/s 1.700 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 275.0 MVertices/s 318.8 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.100 GTexel/s 1.700 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 12 W unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number 942

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0 2.0a

Other Features

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