Jetson Nano GPU vs ATI Radeon 9600 TX

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1477not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Maxwell 2.0 (2014−2019)
GPU code nameR300GM20B
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date7 October 2003 (21 year ago)March 2019 (5 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA coresno data128
Core clock speed297 MHz640 MHz
Boost clock speedno data921 MHz
Number of transistors110 million2,000 million
Manufacturing process technology150 nm20 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data10 Watt
Texture fill rate2.37614.74
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2358 TFLOPS
ROPs816
TMUs816

Form factor & 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).

InterfaceAGP 8xIGP
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsFloppyno data

VRAM capacity and type

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 typeDDRSystem Shared
Maximum RAM amount128 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed270 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth8.64 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

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 Connectors2x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Modelno data6.4
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A1.2
VulkanN/A1.1
CUDA-5.3

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 150 nm 20 nm

Jetson Nano GPU has a 650% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 TX and Jetson Nano GPU. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9600 TX is a desktop card while Jetson Nano GPU is a notebook one.


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ATI Radeon 9600 TX
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