ATI Radeon 9800 PRO vs ATI HD 2400 PRO PCI

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1418
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.22
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameRV610R350
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date28 June 2007 (17 years ago)1 March 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$399

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores40no data
Core clock speed525 MHz380 MHz
Number of transistors180 million117 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)20 Watt47 Watt
Texture fill rate2.1003.040
Floating-point processing power0.042 TFLOPSno data
ROPs48
TMUs48

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).

InterfacePCIAGP 8x
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x Molex

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 typeDDR2DDR
Maximum RAM amount512 MB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed400 MHz340 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.4 GB/s21.76 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 DVI1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX10.0 (10_0)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.32.0
OpenCLN/AN/A
VulkanN/AN/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2007 1 March 2003
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 128 MB
Chip lithography 65 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 20 Watt 47 Watt

ATI HD 2400 PRO PCI has an age advantage of 4 years, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 130.8% more advanced lithography process, and 135% lower power consumption.

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