ATI Mobility Radeon 9500 vs Quadro FX 380

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1253not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.02no data
Power efficiency0.83no data
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameG96M10
Market segmentWorkstationLaptop
Release date30 March 2009 (15 years ago)1 June 2004 (20 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$129 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores16no data
Core clock speed450 MHz230 MHz
Number of transistors314 million76 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)34 Wattno data
Texture fill rate3.6000.92
Floating-point processing power0.0352 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs84

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 x16AGP 4x
Length198 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
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 typeGDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount256 MB128 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz190 MHz
Memory bandwidth22.4 GB/s3.04 GB/s

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 DVINo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCL1.1N/A
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 March 2009 1 June 2004
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 130 nm

FX 380 has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Quadro FX 380 and Mobility Radeon 9500. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Quadro FX 380 is a workstation card while Mobility Radeon 9500 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA Quadro FX 380
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