ATI Radeon HD 3300 IGP vs GeForce 9500 GS

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking1234not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG96RS780
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)6 August 2008 (16 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores3240
Core clock speed550 MHz494 MHz
Boost clock speedno data695 MHz
Number of transistors314 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)40 Wattno data
Texture fill rate8.8002.780
Floating-point processing power0.088 TFLOPS0.0556 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs164

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 1.0 x16
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed504 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth16.13 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model4.04.1
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


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