ATI Radeon 9500 PRO vs GeForce GTX 580M

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	610	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	3.75	no data
Architecture	Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	GF114	R300
Market segment	Laptop	Desktop
Release date	28 June 2011 (13 years ago)	1 October 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	384	no data
Core clock speed	620 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	1,950 million	110 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	100 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	39.68	2.200
Floating-point processing power	0.9523 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	32	8
TMUs	64	8

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-B (3.0)	AGP 8x
Width	no data	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
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 type	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1500 MHz	270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	96.0 GB/s	8.64 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

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

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

3D Blu-Ray	+	-
3D Gaming	+	-
Optimus	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 API	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.5	2.0
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	28 June 2011	1 October 2002
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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