NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GT AGP 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 256GB)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X800 GT AGP 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (31.55GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (40W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R400 AGP
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
AGP 8x
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
493 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
256MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
31.55GB/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
3.784 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
3.784 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
40W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x Molex
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R420
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R420 GT
(215RAACGA12F)
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.16 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
281 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
9.0b (9_2)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
-
