NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X1700 SE
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1700 SE 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 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X1700 SE 's Advantages
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 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
500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/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
4.000 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV560
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV560 SE
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
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
3.0
