NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon X1600 XT Dual
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 GTX 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 22.08GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
May 2009
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R500 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
690 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
256MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
44.80GB/s
Bandwidth
22.08GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
-
48
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.280 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.360 GPixel/s
27.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.360 GTexel/s
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-
-
278.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
140W
TDP
Unknown
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV530
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-
-
Tesla
Architecture
Ultra-Threaded SE
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
90 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.157 billion
324 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
