ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO AGP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 90W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 31.36GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
Oct 2008
Radeon R400 AGP
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 8x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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490 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
31.36GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
6
-
Shading Units
48
12
TMUs
24
12
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
156.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
90W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x Molex
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R420
GPU Name
G94
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
R400
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
9.0b (9_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
2.1
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
