Over 20 years of PC history
| ATi Radeon HD 4830 (chip only) | Sapphire Radeon 9600 XT | STB Riva TNT PCI | Gainward GeForce 7900 GS | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GPU type | RV770 | RV350 | NV4 | G71 |
| Manufacturing process | 55 nm | 130 nm | 350 nm | 90 nm |
| Transistors | 956 million | 76 million | 7 million | 278 million |
| Die size | 256 mm2 | 92 mm2 | 130 mm2 | 196 mm2 |
| ROPs | 16 | 4 | 2 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 4 | 2 | 20 |
| PS / VS | Unified Shaders | 0 / 0 | 640 | 4 / 2 | 0 | - | 20 / 7 | 0 |
| GPU clock | 575 MHz | 500 MHz | 90 MHz | 500 MHz |
| Pixel / texel fillrate | 9 200 MP/s ; 18 400 MT/s | 2 000 MP/s ; 2 000 MT/s | 180 MP/s ; 180 MT/s | 8 000 MP/s ; 10 000 MT/s |
| SP / DP gigaflops | 736 ; 147 | - ; - | - ; - | - ; - |
| DirectX / OpenGL | 10.1 ; 3.3 | 9 ; 2.0 | 6 ; 1.2 | 9c ; 2.1 |
| Compute ver. / OpenCL | - ; 1.0 | - ; - | - ; - | - ; - |
| Memory | - MB - | 128 MB DDR | 16 MB SDRAM | 256 MB GDDR3 |
| Memory | 1 800 MHz ; 256 bit | 600 MHz ; 128 bit | 110 MHz ; 128 bit | 1 400 MHz ; 256 bit |
| Bandwith | 57 600 MB/s | 9 600 MB/s | 1 760 MB/s | 44 800 MB/s |
| Interface | PCI-E 2.0 x16 [8 192 MB/s] | AGP 8x [2 133 MB/s] | PCI [133 MB/s] | PCI-E x16 [4 096 MB/s] |
| TDP | - | 22 W | - | 55 W |
| Analog I/O ports | - | 1 × VGA, 1 × S-Video out, 1 × DVI-I | 1 × VGA | 1 × S-Video out, 2 × DVI-I |
| Digital I/O ports | - | 1 × DVI-I | - | 2 × DVI-I |
| Independent screens | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Introduce date | 2008 | 2003 | 1998 | 2006 |