ATI Radeon 9500 PRO vs HD 7570 OEM

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	Redwood	R300
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	20 March 2013 (11 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	400	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	275 MHz
Number of transistors	627 million	110 million
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	39 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	13.00	2.200
Floating-point processing power	0.52 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	8	8
TMUs	20	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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	165 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	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	DDR3, GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 MHz	270 MHz
Memory bandwidth	64 GB/s	8.64 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	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.2 (11_0)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	5.0	no data
OpenGL	4.4	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	20 March 2013	1 October 2002
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	128 MB
Chip lithography	40 nm	150 nm

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