ATI Radeon 9600 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile

#ad
Buy
VS

General info

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in performance ranking108not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Value for money76.61no data
ArchitectureMaxwell (2014−2018)Rage 8 (2002−2006)
GPU code nameN16E-GXX SLIRV350
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date22 September 2015 (8 years old)1 October 2003 (20 years old)
Current price$301 $290
Value for money

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

no data

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 cores4096no data
Core clock speed1126 MHz324 MHz
Boost clock speed1228 MHzno data
Number of transistors10400 Million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)330 Watt12 Watt
Texture fill rateno data1.296

Size and compatibility

Information on GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon 9600 compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop video cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility). For notebook video cards it's notebook size, connection slot and bus, if the video card is inserted into a slot instead of being soldered to the notebook motherboard.

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone
SLI options+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 typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB64 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed3500 MHz378 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data6.048 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support+no data

API support

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

DirectX12_19.0 (9_0)
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkanno dataN/A
CUDA+no data

Advantages and disadvantages


Recency 22 September 2015 1 October 2003
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 330 Watt 12 Watt

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile and Radeon 9600. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon 9600 is a desktop one.


Should you still have questions concerning choice between the reviewed GPUs, ask them in Comments section, and we shall answer.

User ratings

Do you think we are right or mistaken in our choice? Vote by clicking "Like" button near your favorite graphics card.


NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile
ATI Radeon 9600
Radeon 9600

Similar GPU comparisons

We selected several comparisons of graphics cards with performance close to those reviewed, providing you with more options to consider.

User ratings: view and submit

Here you can see the user rating of the graphics cards, as well as rate them yourself.


3.3 65 votes

Rate NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 SLI Mobile on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
3.1 122 votes

Rate ATI Radeon 9600 on a scale of 1 to 5:

  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5

Questions and comments

Here you can ask a question about this comparison, agree or disagree with our judgements, or report an error or mismatch.