GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2008
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
168 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
120
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
45 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
15.6 billion/sec
5.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
2x DVI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.0 (10_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A