GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon 9800 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon 9800 XT
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon 9800 XT
58
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon 9800 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
G94
R360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
October 2003
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
412 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
117 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
60 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
3.296
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
730 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
23.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A