GeForce 9500 GT and Radeon X300 - video card comparison

GeForce 9500 GT

Radeon X300

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Rage 9 (2003−2008)

GPU code name

G96

RV370

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

July 2008

September 2004

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

550 MHz

375 MHz

CUDA cores

32

-

Floating-point performance

89.6 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

314 million

107 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

32

-

Power consumption (TDP)

50 Watt

36 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

8.8 billion/sec

1.500

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB

64 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI

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

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

9.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

2.0

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A