ATI Radeon 9600 XT vs R7 435 OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1454
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data0.28
ArchitectureGCN 1.0 (2011−2020)Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code nameOlandRV360
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 June 2016 (8 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores320no data
Core clock speed920 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors950 million60 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)50 Watt22 Watt
Texture fill rate18.402.000
Floating-point processing power0.5888 TFLOPSno data
ROPs84
TMUs204

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).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8AGP 8x
Width1-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

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 typeDDR3DDR
Maximum RAM amount2 GB128 MB
Memory bus width64 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz300 MHz
Memory bandwidth16 GB/s9.6 GB/s

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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX12 (11_1)9.0 (9_0)
Shader Model5.1no data
OpenGL4.62.0
OpenCL1.2N/A
Vulkan1.2.131N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 June 2016 1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 128 MB
Chip lithography 28 nm 130 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 50 Watt 22 Watt

R7 435 OEM has an age advantage of 12 years, a 1500% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 364.3% more advanced lithography process.

ATI 9600 XT, on the other hand, has 127.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon R7 435 OEM and Radeon 9600 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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