ATI Radeon X1900 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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Graphics Processor

GPU model R580 G96C
GPU variant R580 XL (215BAEBKA31FG) NB9P-GE2
Architecture R500 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 90 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 384 million 314 million
Die size 352 mm² 121 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date May 1st, 2006
Generation Radeon R500 PCIe
Production End-of-life
Interface PCIe 1.0 x16
Reviews 115 in our database
Predecessor Radeon R400 PCIe
Successor Radeon R600

Clocks

GPU clock 575 MHz 430 MHz
Memory clock 600 MHz 1200 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1075 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 256 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 38.40 GB/s 25.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Pixel shaders 36
Vertex shaders 8
TMUs 12 16
ROPs 12 8
Shading units 32
SM count 4
Cache L2 32 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 6.900 GPixel/s 3.440 GPixel/s
Vertex rate 1.150 GVertices/s
Texture rate 6.900 GTexel/s 6.880 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 68.80 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
TDP 75 W 20 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number A520

API Support & Features

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

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 3rd, 2008
Generation GeForce 9M (9600M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-II
Predecessor GeForce 8M
Successor GeForce 100M

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