NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon X1950 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

ATI Radeon X1950 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 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 GSO 512 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

48 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1950 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (57W vs 90W)

Score

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon X1950 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 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

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

600 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

-

24

TMUs

12

16

ROPs

12

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

57W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

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

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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