Radeon HD 2600 XT and GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 2600 XT
GeForce 9500 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV630
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
May 2010
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
800 MHz
550 MHz
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
89.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
390 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
120
32
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.400
8.800
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A