ATI Radeon X1800 GTO vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R520 G96C
GPU variant R520 LE (215RFLBKA14FG) NB9P-GS
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 321 million 314 million
Die size 288 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Mar 1st, 2006
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 76 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 500 MHz 500 MHz
Memory clock 495 MHz 990 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1250 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 31.68 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 12
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.000 GPixel/s 4.000 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.000 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.000 GTexel/s 8.000 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 80.00 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 254 mm 10 inches
Width 111 mm 4.4 inches
Height 19 mm 0.7 inches
TDP 48 W 23 W
Suggested PSU 200 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number A520 P601, P616

API Support & Features

DirectX 9.0c (9_3) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 2.1 3.3
OpenCL 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 3.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 4th, 2008
Generation GeForce 9M (9600M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce 8M
Successor GeForce 100M

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