Radeon HD 2600 XT and GeForce 9600 GS OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 2600 XT
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV630
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
800 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
192 gflops
120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
390 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
120
48
Power consumption (TDP)
45 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
6.400
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
768 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
48 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 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