NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1650 GTO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 GTO 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 late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.54GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Dec 2007
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
392 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
12.54GB/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
2.348 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.348 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV530
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV530 LE
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
