ATI Radeon 9000 PRO vs GeForce GTX 280M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	978	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	1.38	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name	G92	RV250
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	3 March 2009 (15 years ago)	1 July 2002 (22 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 cores	128	no data
Core clock speed	585 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	754 million	36 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	28 Watt
Texture fill rate	37.44	1.100
Floating-point processing power	0.3745 TFLOPS	no data
Gigaflops	562	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	64	4

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).

Laptop size	large	no data
Bus support	PCI-E 2.0	no data
Interface	MXM-IV	AGP 4x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None
SLI options	+	-
MXM Type	MXM 3.0 Type-B	no 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 type	GDDR3	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	Up to 950 MHz	275 MHz
Memory bandwidth	61 GB/s	8.8 GB/s
Shared memory	-	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 Connectors	HDMIDual Link DVISingle Link DVIDisplayPortLVDSVGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Power management

8.0

no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	8.1
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	2.1	1.4
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	3 March 2009	1 July 2002
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	65 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	75 Watt	28 Watt

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