GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 2600 XT X2 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 2600 XT X2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
RV630
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
July 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
800 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
2x 192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
390 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
120
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
6.400
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 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
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
4x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
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