ATI Radeon X1650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1650 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
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Dec 2008
Radeon R500 PCIe
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
400 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
4
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.540 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
2.540 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV516
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Ultra-Threaded SE
Architecture
Tesla
UMC
Foundry
TSMC
90 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.105 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
100 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0c (9_3)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
3.0
Shader Model
4.0
