
Radeon X1800 XL and Radeon 9600 PRO - video card comparison
Radeon X1800 XL
Radeon 9600 PRO
Architecture
R500 (2005−2007)
Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code name
R520
RV350
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2005
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
500 MHz
400 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
321 million
60 million
Power consumption (TDP)
70 Watt
18 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.000
1.600
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
32 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
2.0
2.0
Shader Model
3.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A