GeForce 6500 and Radeon 9800 PRO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 6500 vs Radeon 9800 PRO
GeForce 6500
39
Radeon 9800 PRO
61
GeForce 6500
Radeon 9800 PRO
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
NV44 A2
R350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
March 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x Molex
Core clock speed
400 MHz
380 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
110 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
75 million
117 million
Power consumption (TDP)
-
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
1.600
3.040
Memory type
DDR2
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
532 MHz
680 MHz
Memory bandwidth
8.512 GB/s
21.76 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A