GeForce 9600M GT vs ATI Radeon X1950 XTX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated1279
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data1.07
ArchitectureR500 (2005−2007)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameR580+G96C
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date17 October 2006 (18 years ago)4 June 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$449 no data

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 data32
Core clock speed650 MHz120 MHz
Number of transistors384 million314 million
Manufacturing process technology90 nm55 nm
Power consumption (TDP)125 Watt23 Watt
Texture fill rate10.408.000
Floating-point processing powerno data0.08 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs1616

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).

Laptop sizeno datamedium sized
InterfacePCIe 1.0 x16MXM-II
Length230 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeGDDR4GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1000 MHz800 MHz
Memory bandwidth64 GB/s25.6 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0c (9_3)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model3.04.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-+

Pros & cons summary


Recency 17 October 2006 4 June 2008
Chip lithography 90 nm 55 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 125 Watt 23 Watt

9600M GT has an age advantage of 1 year, a 63.6% more advanced lithography process, and 443.5% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X1950 XTX and GeForce 9600M GT. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon X1950 XTX is a desktop card while GeForce 9600M GT is a notebook one.


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