ATI Radeon 9600 TX vs NVIDIA GeForce FX 5700

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R300 NV36
GPU variant R300 9600 TX (215R8GAGA13F)
Architecture Rage 8 Rankine
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 150 nm 130 nm
Number of transistors 110 million 82 million
Die size 215 mm² 133 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 7th, 2003 Oct 23rd, 2003
Generation Radeon R300 GeForce FX
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface AGP 8x AGP 8x
Reviews 14 in our database 6 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R200 GeForce 4 Ti
Successor Radeon R400 AGP GeForce 6 AGP

Clocks

GPU clock 297 MHz 425 MHz
Memory clock 270 MHz 540 Mbps effective 250 MHz 500 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 128 MB 128 MB
Memory type DDR DDR
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 8.640 GB/s 16.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 2.376 GPixel/s 1.700 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 297.0 MVertices/s 318.8 MVertices/s
Texture rate 2.376 GTexel/s 1.700 GTexel/s

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP unknown 25 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 200 W
Outputs 2x VGA1x S-Video 1x DVI1x VGA1x S-Video
Power connectors Floppy None

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0 (9_0) 9.0a
OpenGL 2.0 1.5 (2.1)
OpenCL
Vulkan
Pixel shader 2.0 2.0a
Vertex shader 2.0 2.0a

Other Features

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