ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages
24 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 140W)
GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
144
GeForce 9600 GTX
+93%
278
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
May 2009
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
500 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
120
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
16
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
35W
TDP
140W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G92
RV630 PRO
(215CDBBKA15FG)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
