ATI Radeon X1950 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon X1950 GT

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X1950 GT 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 X1950 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (38.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

Lower TDP (57W vs 95W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 256GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Score

Radeon X1950 GT

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 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

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

256MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

-

Shading Units

64

12

TMUs

32

12

ROPs

16

-

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

6.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

57W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV570

GPU Name

G94

RV570 XL

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

R500

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.33 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

230 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

9.0c (9_3)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

2.1 (full) 3.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

3.0

Shader Model

4.0

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