CMP 50HX vs ATI Radeon 9800 SE

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameR350TU102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)24 June 2021 (3 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 coresno data3584
Core clock speed378 MHz1350 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1545 MHz
Number of transistors117 million18,600 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data250 Watt
Texture fill rate1.512296.6
Floating-point processing powerno data11.07 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs4192
Tensor Coresno data448
Ray Tracing Coresno data56

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 8xPCIe 3.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsFloppy2x 8-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount128 MB10 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed297 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth19.01 GB/s560.0 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A3.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 24 June 2021
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 10 GB
Chip lithography 150 nm 12 nm

CMP 50HX has an age advantage of 18 years, a 7900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1150% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 SE and CMP 50HX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9800 SE is a desktop card while CMP 50HX is a workstation one.


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