ATI 3D Rage II vs Radeon R5 330 OEM

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
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Mach (1992−1997)
GPU code nameHainanMach64 GT-B
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date5 May 2015 (9 years ago)5 September 1996 (28 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$269

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 cores320no data
Core clock speed830 MHz60 MHz
Boost clock speed855 MHzno data
Number of transistors690 million5 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm500 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Wattno data
Texture fill rate17.100.06
Floating-point processing power0.5472 TFLOPSno data
ROPs81
TMUs201

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCI
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno 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 typeDDR3SDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed900 MHz83 MHz
Memory bandwidth14.4 GB/s664.0 MB/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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x VGA

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)5.0
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.6N/A
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 5 May 2015 5 September 1996
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 500 nm

R5 330 OEM has an age advantage of 18 years, a 51100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1685.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R5 330 OEM and 3D Rage II. We've got no test results to judge.


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