NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 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 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (57W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 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
600 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.000 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
6.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
57W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV570
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV570 XL
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.33 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
230 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1 (full)
3.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
