NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 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 9 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 215W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT +128%

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

215W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

R600

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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