Radeon 9500 and GT218 - video card comparison

Radeon 9500

GT218

Architecture

Rage 8 (2002−2006)

Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)

GPU code name

R300

GT218

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2003

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Interface

AGP 8x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

275 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

150 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

110 million

260 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

16

Power consumption (TDP)

12 Watt

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Texture fill rate

1.100

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Memory type

DDR

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Maximum RAM amount

64 MB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

540 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

17.28 GB/s

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Display Connectors

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

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DirectX

9.0 (9_0)

11.1 (10_1)

CUDA

-

1.2

OpenCL

N/A

1.1

OpenGL

2.0

3.3

Shader Model

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4.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A

PureVideo HD

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VP4