ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 PRO 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 2900 PRO 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO +100%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

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

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

320

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

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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