ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.60GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
56 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (45W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
0.168 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+14%
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Dec 2008
Radeon R600
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
25.60GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
120
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
5.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
168.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
45W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
