NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon X800 GTO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 128MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO 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 late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 128GB)
64 additional rendering cores
ATI Radeon X800 GTO 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (22.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
Lower TDP (49W vs 95W)
Score
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Dec 2007
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
350 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
128MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
22.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
-
32
TMUs
12
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
-
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.800 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
4.800 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
-
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
49W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R423
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R423 GTO
Tesla
Architecture
R400
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
130 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.16 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
289 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
-
