ATI FireGL 9700 X1-256 vs NVIDIA Quadro NVS 420

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R300 G98
GPU variant R300 GL
Architecture Rage 8 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 110 million 210 million
Die size 215 mm² 86 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 1st, 2002 Jan 20th, 2009
Generation FireGL Quadro NVS
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 1 in our database 26 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 325 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 310 MHz 620 Mbps effective 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1400 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 19.84 GB/s 11.20 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 8
Vertex shaders 4
TMUs 8 4
ROPs 8 4
Shading units 8
SM count 1
Cache L2 16 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.600 GPixel/s 2.200 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 325.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.600 GTexel/s 2.200 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 22.40 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 37 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI No outputs
Power connectors None None
Board number 942-00 P737

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.0 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0
Vertex shader 2.0
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0

Other Features

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