NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1050
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X1050 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 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 3.200GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1050 's Advantages
Lower TDP (24W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R400 PCIe
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
200 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
3.200GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.200 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.200 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
24W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV410
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
110 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.12 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
156 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
3.3
OpenGL
2.0
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
