ATI Radeon 9600 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon 9600 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

NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

Differences

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 324 MHz vs 250 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 130 nm vs 150 nm
5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 25 vs 5
Around 1% better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 150 vs 149

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	1 October 2003 vs 1 October 2001
Core clock speed	324 MHz vs 250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm vs 150 nm
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	25 vs 5
PassMark - G2D Mark	150 vs 149

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti

Around 54% higher texture fill rate: 2 GTexel / s vs 1.296 GTexel / s
Around 6% higher memory clock speed: 400 MHz vs 378 MHz

Texture fill rate	2 GTexel / s vs 1.296 GTexel / s
Memory clock speed	400 MHz vs 378 MHz

Compare benchmarks

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

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

150

149

Name	ATI Radeon 9600	NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti
PassMark - G3D Mark	25	5
PassMark - G2D Mark	150	149

Compare specifications (specs)

	ATI Radeon 9600	NVIDIA GeForce2 Ti
Essentials
Architecture	Rage 8	Celsius
Code name	RV350	NV15 A5
Launch date	1 October 2003	1 October 2001
Place in performance rating	1100	1103
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	324 MHz	250 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	130 nm	150 nm
Texture fill rate	1.296 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	12 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	64 MB	64 MB
Memory bandwidth	6.05 GB / s	6.4 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	378 MHz	400 MHz
Memory type	DDR	DDR