NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 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 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

56 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition +14%

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 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

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

266 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

256MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

64

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.800 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.600 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

168.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

95W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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