ATI Radeon 9000 vs R6 (Carrizo)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking969not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency3.00no data
ArchitectureGCN 1.2/2.0 (2015−2016)Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code nameCarrizoRV250
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date4 June 2015 (9 years ago)1 July 2002 (22 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 cores384no data
Core clock speedno data250 MHz
Boost clock speed800 MHzno data
Number of transistors2410 Million36 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12-35 Watt28 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.000
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Laptop sizemedium sizedno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 4x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus width64/128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speedno data200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.4 GB/s
Shared memory+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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (FL 12_0)8.1
OpenGLno data1.4
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 4 June 2015 1 July 2002
Chip lithography 28 nm 150 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 28 Watt

R6 (Carrizo) has an age advantage of 12 years, a 435.7% more advanced lithography process, and 133.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R6 (Carrizo) and Radeon 9000. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon R6 (Carrizo) is a notebook card while Radeon 9000 is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon R6 (Carrizo)
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