ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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

24 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (45W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

0.168 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX +65%

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

May 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

25.60GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

3

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

120

Shading Units

96

8

TMUs

48

4

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

2.800 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

5.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

168.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

45W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV630

GPU Name

G92

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.39 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

153 mm²

Die Size

324 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

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