GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon X1900 XT - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon X1900 XT

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

G94

R580

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

January 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

625 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

100 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

10.00

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

256 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1450 MBps

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

46.4 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

2.1 (full) Shader Model4.03.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A