Radeon HD 2900 PRO vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Place in performance ranking	1091	905
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Value for money	0.09	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name	G94	R600
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	23 October 2008 (15 years ago)	12 December 2007 (16 years ago)
Current price	$75	no data

Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Technical specs

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	48	320
CUDA cores	48	no data
Core clock speed	650 MHz	600 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	720 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	80 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	90 Watt	200 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C	no data
Texture fill rate	15.6 billion/sec	9.600
Floating-point performance	156 gflops	384.0 gflops

Size and compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	9" (22.9 cm)	241 mm
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)	no data
Width	1-slot	2-slot
Supplementary power connectors	6-pin	1x 8-pin
SLI options	2-way	no data

Memory

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR3	GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	512 MB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	900 MHz	1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth	57.6 GB/s	51.2 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	Two Dual Link DVIHDTV	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support	+	no data
HDMI	+	no data
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536	no data
Audio input for HDMI	S/PDIF	no data

API support

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	10.0 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
OpenCL	1.1	N/A
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	+	no data

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark performance comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.

Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.

9600 GSO 512 0.85

ATI HD 2900 PRO 1.62
+90.6%

Radeon HD 2900 PRO outperforms GeForce 9600 GSO 512 by 91% based on our aggregated benchmark results.

Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

Benchmark coverage: 25%

9600 GSO 512 329

ATI HD 2900 PRO 627
+90.6%

Radeon HD 2900 PRO outperforms GeForce 9600 GSO 512 by 91% in Passmark.