GeForce 310 OEM vs ATI Radeon 9800 PRO

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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)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameR350GT218
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 March 2003 (21 year ago)27 November 2009 (14 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$399 no data

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 data16
Core clock speed380 MHz589 MHz
Number of transistors117 million260 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)47 Watt31 Watt
Texture fill rate3.0404.712
Floating-point processing powerno data0.04486 TFLOPS
ROPs84
TMUs88

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x MolexNone

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 typeDDRDDR2
Maximum RAM amount128 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed340 MHz333 MHz
Memory bandwidth21.76 GB/s5.328 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-Video1x DVI, 1x DisplayPort, 1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 March 2003 27 November 2009
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 150 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 47 Watt 31 Watt

310 OEM has an age advantage of 6 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 275% more advanced lithography process, and 51.6% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9800 PRO and GeForce 310 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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