NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1950 XTX Uber 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 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (95W vs 125W)
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX Uber Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (67.20GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
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
1050 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
67.20GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.72 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
10.72 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
125W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VHDCI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R580+
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R580+ XT
(215BAABKA31FG)
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.384 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
352 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
