P102-100 vs ATI Radeon 9600

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code nameRV350GP102
Market segmentDesktopWorkstation
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)12 February 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$599

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 coresno data3200
Core clock speed324 MHz1582 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1683 MHz
Number of transistors60 million11,800 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm16 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt250 Watt
Texture fill rate1.296336.6
Floating-point processing powerno data10.77 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs4200

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 3.0 x4
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone2x 8-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR5X
Maximum RAM amount64 MB5 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit320 Bit
Memory clock speed189 MHz1376 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.048 GB/s440.3 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.2.131
CUDA-6.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 12 February 2018
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 5 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 16 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 250 Watt

ATI 9600 has 1983.3% lower power consumption.

P102-100, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 14 years, a 7900% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 712.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 and P102-100. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9600 is a desktop card while P102-100 is a workstation one.


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