ATI Radeon 9600 TX vs NVIDIA GeForce 6500

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R300 NV44
GPU variant R300 9600 TX (215R8GAGA13F)
Architecture Rage 8 Curie
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 110 nm
Number of transistors 110 million 75 million
Die size 215 mm² 110 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 7th, 2003 Oct 1st, 2005
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce 6 PCIe
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 14 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce PCX
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 7 PCIe

Clocks

GPU clock 297 MHz 400 MHz
Memory clock 270 MHz 540 Mbps effective 266 MHz 532 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR2
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 8.640 GB/s 8.512 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 8 4
Vertex shaders 4 3
TMUs 8 4
ROPs 8 2

Performance

Pixel rate 2.376 GPixel/s 800.0 MPixel/s
Vertex rate 297.0 MVertices/s 300.0 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.376 GTexel/s 1.600 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown unknown
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors Floppy

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0c (9_3)
OpenGL 2.0 2.1
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0
Vertex shader 2.0
Shader model 3.0

Other Features

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