Radeon HD 2900 PRO and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 2900 PRO
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R600
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
December 2007
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
384.0 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
720 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
200 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.600
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1600 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
44.8 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