ATI Radeon 9500 vs ATI HD 2900 XT

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	924	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	0.04	no data
Power efficiency	0.55	no data
Architecture	TeraScale (2005−2013)	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	R600	R300
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	14 May 2007 (17 years ago)	1 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$399	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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	320	no data
Core clock speed	743 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	720 million	110 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	12 Watt
Texture fill rate	11.89	1.100
Floating-point processing power	0.4755 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	16	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).

Interface	PCIe 1.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	241 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None

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	512 MB	64 MB
Memory bus width	512 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	828 MHz	270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	106.0 GB/s	17.28 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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

API compatibility

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

DirectX	10.0 (10_0)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	4.0	no data
OpenGL	3.3	2.0
OpenCL	N/A	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

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	14 May 2007	1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	64 MB
Chip lithography	80 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	215 Watt	12 Watt

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