ATI Radeon HD 2600 XT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model RV630 G96
Architecture TeraScale Tesla
Foundry TSMC UMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 390 million 314 million
Die size 153 mm² 144 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 21st, 2008 Jul 29th, 2008
Generation Radeon R600 GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 82 in our database 22 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R500 PCIe GeForce 8
Successor Radeon R700 GeForce 200

Clocks

GPU clock 700 MHz 600 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 1000 MHz 2 Gbps effective
Shader clock 1500 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 25.60 GB/s 32.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 120 32
TMUs 8 16
ROPs 4 8
Compute units 3
Cache L2 64 KB 32 KB
SM count 4

Performance

Pixel rate 2.800 GPixel/s 4.800 GPixel/s
Texture rate 5.600 GTexel/s 9.600 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 168.0 GFLOPS 96.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
TDP 45 W 50 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None None
Board number B148

API Support & Features

DirectX 10.0 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 4.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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