NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1600
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 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 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages
Lower TDP (27W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 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
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
12.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
4
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.540 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
2.540 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
27W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV516
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
R500
TSMC
Foundry
UMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.107 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
100 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
