GeForce GTX 260 and Radeon 9600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 260 vs Radeon 9600 XT
GeForce GTX 260
1260
Radeon 9600 XT
36
GeForce GTX 260
Radeon 9600 XT
Architecture
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
GT200
RV360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
576 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
192
-
Floating-point performance
476.9 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
1,400 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
192
-
Power consumption (TDP)
182 Watt
22 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
36.9 billion/sec
2.000
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
896 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
448 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
999 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
111.9 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0 (9_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A