ATI Radeon 9700 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GX2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R300 G92
GPU variant R300 9700 PRO (215R8CBGA13F) G92-450-A2
Architecture Rage 8 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 110 million 754 million
Die size 215 mm² 324 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jul 1st, 2002 Mar 18th, 2008
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 1 in our database 65 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce 8
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 200
Launch price 599 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 325 MHz 600 MHz
Memory clock 310 MHz 620 Mbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1500 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 512 MB
Memory type DDR GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 19.84 GB/s 64.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 8
Vertex shaders 4
TMUs 8 64
ROPs 8 16
Shading units 128
SM count 16
Cache L2 64 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 2.600 GPixel/s 9.600 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 325.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.600 GTexel/s 38.40 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 384.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
TDP unknown 197 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 450 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video 2x DVI1x HDMI
Power connectors Floppy 1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Board number 942 P791
Length 267 mm 10.5 inches

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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