NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1600 XT Dual 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
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.08GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
22.08GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.360 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.360 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV530
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
150 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
