Radeon 9000 and GeForce3 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon 9000 vs GeForce3
Radeon 9000
4
GeForce3
4
Radeon 9000
GeForce3
Architecture
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
Kelvin (2001−2003)
GPU code name
RV250
NV20 A5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2002
February 2001
Interface
AGP 4x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
250 MHz
200 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
36 million
57 million
Power consumption (TDP)
28 Watt
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Texture fill rate
1.000
1.600
Memory type
DDR
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
64 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
400 MHz
230 MHz
Memory bandwidth
6.4 GB/s
3.68 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA, 1x DB13W3
DirectX
8.1
8.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
1.4
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
N/A