NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon X1600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

ATI Radeon X1600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 512MB VRAM Radeon X1600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon X1600 's Advantages

Lower TDP (27W vs 140W)

Score

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon X1600

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Jan 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R500 PCIe

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

-

48

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.540 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.540 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

27W

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

RV516

-

Tesla

Architecture

R500

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.107 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

100 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

9.0c (9_3)

3.3

OpenGL

2.1

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

3.0

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