Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile vs ATI 9800 PRO

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1418not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.22no data
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR350Lucienne
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)12 January 2021 (3 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 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 coresno data512
Core clock speed380 MHz300 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1900 MHz
Number of transistors117 million9,800 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt25 Watt
Texture fill rate3.04060.80
Floating-point processing powerno data1.946 TFLOPS
ROPs88
TMUs832

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xIGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x Molexno 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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed340 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth21.76 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.7 (6.4)
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.1
VulkanN/A1.3

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 12 January 2021
Chip lithography 150 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 25 Watt

Graphics 512SP Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 2042.9% more advanced lithography process, and 88% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 PRO and Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9800 PRO is a desktop card while Radeon Graphics 512SP Mobile is a notebook one.


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