ATI Radeon 3000 IGP vs GeForce 9500 GT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1248not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.59no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code nameG96RS780
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$85.99 no data

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 MHz350 MHz
Number of transistors314 million180 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Maximum GPU temperature105 °Cno data
Texture fill rate9.6001.400
Floating-point processing power0.096 TFLOPSno data
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
Length175 mmno data
Height4.376" (11.1 cm)no data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data
SLI options+-

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount1 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)no 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 ConnectorsDual Link DVISingle Link DVIMotherboard Dependent
Multi monitor support+no data
HDMI+-
Maximum VGA resolution2048x1536no data
Audio input for HDMIS/PDIFno data

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
OpenGL2.13.3
OpenCL1.11.0
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


We couldn't decide between GeForce 9500 GT and Radeon 3000 IGP. We've got no test results to judge.


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