AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT and ATI Radeon 9600 XT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score.

AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 17 year(s) 0 month(s) later
3.7x more core clock speed: 1825 MHz vs 500 MHz
360000x more texture fill rate: 720.0 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 7 nm vs 130 nm
128x more maximum memory size: 16 GB vs 128 MB
3.3x more memory clock speed: 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 600 MHz
764.2x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 26746 vs 35
7.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1052 vs 147

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	28 Oct 2020 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	1825 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	720.0 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	16 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective) vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	26746 vs 35
PassMark - G2D Mark	1052 vs 147

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

13.6x lower typical power consumption: 22 Watt vs 300 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt vs 300 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 XT

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

26746

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1052

147

Name	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
PassMark - G3D Mark	26746	35
PassMark - G2D Mark	1052	147
Geekbench - OpenCL	166557
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	543.753
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	0
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	51.155
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	320.733
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	2566.9
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3350
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	17213
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3714
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3350
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	21090

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	RDNA 2.0	Rage 9
Code name	Navi 21	RV360
Launch date	28 Oct 2020	1 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP)	$999
Place in performance rating	62	1149
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2250 MHz
Compute units	80
Core clock speed	1825 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	7 nm	130 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	1440 GFLOPS (1:16)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	46.08 TFLOPS (2:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	23.04 TFLOPS
Pipelines	5120
Pixel fill rate	288.0 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	720.0 GTexel/s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	300 Watt	22 Watt
Transistor count	26800 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI, 2x DisplayPort, 1x USB Type-C	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Triple-slot
Height	50 mm (2 inches)
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	267 mm (10.5 inches)
Recommended system power (PSU)	700 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	None
Width	120 mm (4.7 inches)
API support
DirectX	12.2	9.0
OpenCL	2.1
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Shader Model	6.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	512 GB/s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective)	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR