Radeon 9700 and GeForce 256 DDR - video card comparison
Radeon 9700
GeForce 256 DDR
Architecture
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
Celsius (1999−2005)
GPU code name
R300
NV10 A3
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2002
December 1999
Interface
AGP 8x
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
Floppy
None
Core clock speed
275 MHz
120 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
150 nm
220 nm
Number of transistors
110 million
17 million
Power consumption (TDP)
37 Watt
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Texture fill rate
2.200
0.48
Memory type
DDR
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
128 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
540 MHz
300 MHz
Memory bandwidth
17.28 GB/s
4.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x VGA
DirectX
9.0 (9_0)
7.0
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
N/A