ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV630 G96C
GPU variant RV630 GL
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 390 million 314 million
Die size 153 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jun 28th, 2007 Jul 29th, 2008
Generation FireGL GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 299 USD
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 5 in our database 22 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 500 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1250 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 16.00 GB/s 16.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 120 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 3
Cache L2 64 KB 32 KB
SM count 4

Performance

Pixel rate 2.400 GPixel/s 4.000 GPixel/s
Texture rate 4.800 GTexel/s 8.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 144.0 GFLOPS 80.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 73 W 40 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs No outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number B149-31

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.0 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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