Radeon SDR and Whistler - video card comparison

Radeon SDR

Whistler

Architecture

Rage 6 (2000−2007)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

Rage 6

Whistler

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

June 2000

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Interface

AGP 4x

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Supplementary power connectors

None

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Core clock speed

166 MHz

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Manufacturing process technology

180 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

30 million

716 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

-

480

Power consumption (TDP)

23 Watt

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Texture fill rate

1

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Memory type

SDR

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Maximum RAM amount

32 MB

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Memory bus width

128 Bit

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Memory clock speed

166 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

2.656 GB/s

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Display Connectors

1x VGA

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DirectX

7.0

11.2 (11_0)

OpenCL

N/A

1.2

OpenGL

1.3

4.4

Shader Model

-

5.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A