ATI Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580 G96
GPU variant R580 CF
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC UMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 314 million
Die size 352 mm² 144 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Jan 24th, 2006 Jul 29th, 2008
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database 22 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe GeForce 8
Successor Radeon R600 GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 625 MHz 600 MHz
Memory clock 725 MHz 1450 Mbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1500 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 46.40 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 48
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 16 16
ROPs 16 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 10.00 GPixel/s 4.800 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.250 GVertices/s
Texture rate 10.00 GTexel/s 9.600 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 96.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
TDP 100 W 50 W
Suggested PSU 300 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number A721

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial) 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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