ATI Radeon 9800 PRO Mac Edition vs R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking837not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureGCN (2012−2015)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameKaveri SpectreR360
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date14 January 2014 (12 years ago)4 March 2004 (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 cores512no data
Core clock speed720 MHz378 MHz
Number of transistorsno data117 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data60 Watt
Texture fill rateno data3.024
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data8

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP Pro 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data128 MB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data338 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data21.63 GB/s
Shared memory+no data

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 Connectorsno data2x DVI

API and SDK support

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)9.0
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 14 January 2014 4 March 2004
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm

R7 512 Cores (Kaveri Desktop) has an age advantage of 9 years, and a 436% more advanced lithography process.

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