ATI Radeon X1700 SE vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 GS Rev. 2

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV560 GT218
GPU variant RV560 SE GT218-670-B1
Architecture R500 Tesla 2.0
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 80 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 330 million 260 million
Die size 230 mm² 57 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Nov 30th, 2007 Mar 12th, 2011
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 8
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 589 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 333 MHz 666 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1402 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 256 MB
Memory type DDR2 DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 16.00 GB/s 5.328 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 24
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 8 8
ROPs 8 4
Shading units 16
SM count 2
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 4.000 GPixel/s 2.356 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.000 GVertices/s
Texture rate 4.000 GTexel/s 4.712 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 44.86 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 50 W unknown
Suggested PSU 250 W 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA
Power connectors None None
Board number P691, P872, P874

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_1)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.1
CUDA 1.2

Other Features

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