NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 256MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 22.40GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT 's Advantages

56 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT +8%

0.208 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

22.40GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

3

64

Shading Units

120

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.200 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.400 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV630

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

45W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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