ATI Radeon 9600 vs R7 250XE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	1525
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	no data	0.51
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code name	Cape Verde	RV350
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	21 August 2014 (11 years ago)	1 October 2003 (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	640	no data
Core clock speed	860 MHz	324 MHz
Number of transistors	1,500 million	60 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	12 Watt
Texture fill rate	34.40	1.296
Floating-point processing power	1.101 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	40	4
L1 Cache	160 KB	no data
L2 Cache	256 KB	no data

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 3.0 x16	AGP 8x
Width	1-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	None	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	GDDR5	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	1125 MHz	189 MHz
Memory bandwidth	72 GB/s	6.048 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK support

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

DirectX	12 (11_1)	9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model	5.1	no data
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	1.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.2.131	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	21 August 2014	1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	1 GB	64 MB
Chip lithography	28 nm	130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	80 Watt	12 Watt

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