GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon X1900 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon X1900 GT
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon X1900 GT
149
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon X1900 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R500 (2005−2007)
GPU code name
G94
R580
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
May 2006
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
575 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
384 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A