Extreme Graphics 2 and Radeon 9500 - video card comparison

Extreme Graphics 2

Radeon 9500

Architecture

Gen. 2 (2003)

Rage 8 (2002−2006)

GPU code name

Montara

R300

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

December 2003

March 2003

Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

133 MHz

-

Core clock speed

-

275 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

-

110 million

Power consumption (TDP)

-

12 Watt

Texture fill rate

0.27

1.100

Memory type

System Shared

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

System Shared

64 MB

Memory bus width

System Shared

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

System Shared

540 MHz

Memory bandwidth

-

17.28 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

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

DirectX

7.0

9.0 (9_0)

OpenCL

N/A

N/A

OpenGL

1.3

2.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A