NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO 's Advantages

24 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +93%

0.278 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

0.144 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Jun 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

3

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

120

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

144.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

35W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV630

-

GPU Variant

RV630 PRO (215CDBBKA15FG)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.39 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

153 mm²

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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