ATI 3D Rage IIC PCI vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2MB VRAM 3D Rage IIC PCI and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 0.664GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 1997
Release Date
Feb 2008
Rage 2
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCI
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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83 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2MB
Memory Size
512MB
SDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
0.664GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
1
TMUs
32
1
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
60.00 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
60.00 MTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
-
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Rage IIC
GPU Name
G94
Rage IIC PCI
(215R2PZUA21)
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Rage 2
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
500 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.005 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
39 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
5.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
