ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
Comparative analysis of ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.
Differences
Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe
- Around 3% higher core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 580 MHz
- 3.3x more pipelines: 320 vs 96
- Around 38% better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 278.4 gflops
- A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm
- 4.7x lower typical power consumption: 30 Watt vs 140 Watt
Core clock speed | 600 MHz vs 580 MHz |
Pipelines | 320 vs 96 |
Floating-point performance | 384.0 gflops vs 278.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm vs 65 nm |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 30 Watt vs 140 Watt |
Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
- Around 45% higher texture fill rate: 27.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s
Texture fill rate | 27.84 GTexel / s vs 19.2 GTexel / s |
Compare specifications (specs)
ATI Radeon E4690 PCIe | NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX | |
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Essentials |
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Architecture | TeraScale | Tesla |
Code name | RV730 | G92 |
Launch date | 1 June 2009 | 27 May 2009 |
Place in performance rating | not rated | not rated |
Type | Desktop | Desktop |
Technical info |
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Core clock speed | 600 MHz | 580 MHz |
Floating-point performance | 384.0 gflops | 278.4 gflops |
Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | 65 nm |
Pipelines | 320 | 96 |
Texture fill rate | 19.2 GTexel / s | 27.84 GTexel / s |
Thermal Design Power (TDP) | 30 Watt | 140 Watt |
Transistor count | 514 million | 754 million |
Video outputs and ports |
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Display Connectors | 2x DVI | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements |
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Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | PCIe 2.0 x16 |
Length | 175 mm | 267 mm |
Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin | |
API support |
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DirectX | 10.1 | 10.0 |
OpenGL | 3.3 | 3.3 |
Memory |
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Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 512 MB |
Memory bandwidth | 22.4 GB / s | 44.8 GB / s |
Memory bus width | 128 Bit | 256 Bit |
Memory clock speed | 1400 MHz | 1400 MHz |
Memory type | GDDR3 | GDDR3 |