NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 GT 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 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
ATI Radeon HD 2900 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
176 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 2900 GT
+50%
0.288 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
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
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
51.20GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
3
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
240
32
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
7.212 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.212 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
288.5 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R600
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R600 GT
(215RGFDKA13FG)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
