ATI Radeon 9600 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 XT and NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti 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.

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
2x more core clock speed: 500 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
2x more maximum memory size: 128 MB vs 64 MB
Around 50% higher memory clock speed: 600 MHz vs 400 MHz
7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 35 vs 5

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 1 October 2001
Core clock speed	500 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Maximum memory size	128 MB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed	600 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	35 vs 5

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 149 vs 147

Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	149 vs 147

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: ATI Radeon 9600 XT
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

147

149

Name	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti
PassMark - G3D Mark	35	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	147	149

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600 XT	NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 9	Celsius
Code name	RV360	NV15 A5
Launch date	1 October 2003	1 October 2001
Place in performance rating	1110	1111
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	500 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt
Transistor count	76 million	25 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video	1x VGA, 2x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	AGP 8x	AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
Length		165 mm
API support
DirectX	9.0	7.0
OpenGL	2.0	1.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	128 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	9.6 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	600 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR