ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 240W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 2900 XTX +128%

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XTX

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Feb 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

106.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

320

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.89 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

11.89 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

475.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

240W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G94

R600 XTX A11 (215RGMDKA11FG)

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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