ATI Radeon X1300 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV515 NV44
GPU variant RV515 LE (215FAEAKA13FG)
Architecture R500 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 107 million 75 million
Die size 100 mm² 110 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Dec 1st, 2005 Oct 1st, 2005
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 48 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 450 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 8.000 GB/s 8.512 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 4 4
Vertex shaders 2 3
TMUs 4 4
ROPs 4 2

Performance

Pixel rate 1.800 GPixel/s 800.0 MPixel/s
Vertex rate 225.0 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 1.800 GTexel/s 1.600 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

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

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.1 2.1
OpenCL
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 3.0

Other Features

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