ATI Radeon 3000 IGP vs ATI 9500

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1453	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.51	no data
Architecture	Rage 8 (2002−2007)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	R300	RS780
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	1 March 2003 (21 year ago)	2009 (15 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	no data	40
Core clock speed	275 MHz	350 MHz
Number of transistors	110 million	180 million
Manufacturing process technology	150 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	12 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	1.100	1.400
ROPs	4	4
TMUs	4	4

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	AGP 8x	PCIe 1.0 x16
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	None	no data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	DDR	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	64 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	270 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	17.28 GB/s	no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors

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

Motherboard Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	9.0 (9_0)	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	no data	4.1
OpenGL	2.0	3.3
OpenCL	N/A	1.0
Vulkan	N/A	N/A

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography

150 nm

65 nm

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