Radeon 9000 and GeForce GTX 470 X2 - video card comparison

Radeon 9000

GeForce GTX 470 X2

Architecture

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

RV250

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

July 2002

Interface

AGP 4x

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

2x 8-pin

Core clock speed

250 MHz

608 MHz

Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

36 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

352

Power consumption (TDP)

28 Watt

215 Watt

Texture fill rate

1.000

26.75

Memory type

DDR

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

400 MHz

3.3 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

6.4 GB/s

107.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

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

3x DVI

DirectX

8.1

12 (11_0)

CUDA

2.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

1.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

Vulkan

N/A