GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon X600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1435not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.25no data
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV370G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 September 2004 (20 years ago)27 May 2009 (15 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 data96
Core clock speed400 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors107 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology110 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)36 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate1.60027.84
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2784 TFLOPS
ROPs416
TMUs448

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 1.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount256 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed250 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth8 GB/s44.8 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 S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.011.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 September 2004 27 May 2009
Maximum RAM amount 256 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 110 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 36 Watt 140 Watt

ATI X600 has 288.9% lower power consumption.

9600 GTX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 4 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 69.2% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon X600 and GeForce 9600 GTX. We've got no test results to judge.


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