ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 PRO

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (51.20GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

Lower TDP (140W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 PRO +38%

0.384 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 PRO

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Dec 2007

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

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

51.20GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

9.600 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

384.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

200W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G92

R600 PRO (215RGMDKA13FG)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

324 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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