ATI Radeon X800 GTO AGP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM Radeon X800 GTO AGP 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 X800 GTO AGP 's Advantages
Lower TDP (49W vs 140W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 31.36GB/s)
96 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Nov 2007
Release Date
May 2009
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
700 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
31.36GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
12
-
Shading Units
96
12
TMUs
48
12
ROPs
16
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-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
4.800 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
49W
TDP
140W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 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
G92
R420 GTO
GPU Variant
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R400
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
130 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.16 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
281 mm²
Die Size
324 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
