NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT and ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Videocard is newer: launch date 1 year(s) 1 month(s) later
2.3x more core clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 600 MHz
Around 83% higher texture fill rate: 8.8 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 55 nm vs 65 nm

Launch date	29 July 2008 vs 28 June 2007
Core clock speed	1400 MHz vs 600 MHz
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec vs 4.8 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm vs 65 nm

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

3.8x more pipelines: 120 vs 32
Around 61% better floating-point performance: 144 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Around 43% lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 50 Watt
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 1000 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Around 23% better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 211 vs 172
10.5x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 337 vs 32
Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 1693 vs 1505
Around 12% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 1693 vs 1505

Specifications (specs)
Pipelines	120 vs 32
Floating-point performance	144 gflops vs 89.6 gflops
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 50 Watt
Memory clock speed	1000 MHz vs 800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark	211 vs 172
PassMark - G2D Mark	337 vs 32
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1693 vs 1505
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1693 vs 1505

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT
GPU 2: ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

172

211

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

337

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1505

1693

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)

GPU 1

GPU 2

1505

1693

Name	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
PassMark - G3D Mark	172	211
PassMark - G2D Mark	32	337
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	0.612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	56.838
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	1505	1693
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	1505	1693

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT	ATI Radeon HD 2600 PRO
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G96C	RV630
Launch date	29 July 2008	28 June 2007
Launch price (MSRP)	$85.99
Place in performance rating	1666	889
Price now	$85.99
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Value for money (0-100)	4.13
Technical info
Core clock speed	1400 MHz	600 MHz
CUDA cores	32
Floating-point performance	89.6 gflops	144 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	55 nm	65 nm
Maximum GPU temperature	105 °C
Pipelines	32	120
Texture fill rate	8.8 billion / sec	4.8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	50 Watt	35 Watt
Transistor count	314 million	390 million
Video outputs and ports
Audio input for HDMI	S / PDIF
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI	2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution	2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Height	4.376" (11.1 cm)
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	6.875" (17.5 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	2.1	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	256 / 512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)	16 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz	1000 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2
Technologies
CUDA
SLI