NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
56 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+14%
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
0.168 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
25.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
120
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.800 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.600 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
168.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
45W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV630
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.39 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
