ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

More VRAM (768GB vs 512GB)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO +220%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

Release Date

Jul 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

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

320

Shading Units

48

16

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

12

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

Unknown

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G94

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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