NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

72 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition +7%

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

120

24

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV630

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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