ATI FireGL X3-256 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R420 G92
GPU variant R420 GL
Architecture R400 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 130 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 160 million 754 million
Die size 281 mm² 324 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Aug 3rd, 2004 Apr 28th, 2008
Generation FireGL GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 1,099 USD
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 226 in our database 4 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 491 MHz 550 MHz
Memory clock 454 MHz 908 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1375 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 384 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 29.06 GB/s 38.40 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 6
TMUs 12 48
ROPs 12 12
Shading units 96
SM count 12
Cache L2 48 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 5.892 GPixel/s 6.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 736.5 MVertices/s
Texture rate 5.892 GTexel/s 26.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 264.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
TDP 57 W 84 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x Molex 1x 6-pin
Board number A301-01 P393
Length 229 mm 9 inches

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0b (9_2) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0b
Vertex shader 2.0b
CUDA 1.1
Shader model 4.0

Other Features

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