NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon HD 3410

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX and ATI Radeon HD 3410 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory.

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

ATI Radeon HD 3410

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

Around 12% higher core clock speed: 580 MHz vs 519 MHz
13.4x more texture fill rate: 27.84 GTexel / s vs 2.076 GTexel / s
2.4x more pipelines: 96 vs 40
6.7x better floating-point performance: 278.4 gflops vs 41.52 gflops
2x more maximum memory size: 512 MB vs 256 MB
Around 77% higher memory clock speed: 1400 MHz vs 792 MHz

Core clock speed	580 MHz vs 519 MHz
Texture fill rate	27.84 GTexel / s vs 2.076 GTexel / s
Pipelines	96 vs 40
Floating-point performance	278.4 gflops vs 41.52 gflops
Maximum memory size	512 MB vs 256 MB
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz vs 792 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon HD 3410

7x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 140 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 140 Watt

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX	ATI Radeon HD 3410
Essentials
Architecture	Tesla	TeraScale
Code name	G92	RV610
Launch date	27 May 2009	7 May 2009
Place in performance rating	not rated	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	580 MHz	519 MHz
Floating-point performance	278.4 gflops	41.52 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	65 nm
Pipelines	96	40
Texture fill rate	27.84 GTexel / s	2.076 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	140 Watt	20 Watt
Transistor count	754 million	180 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	2x DVI, 1x S-Video	1x DVI, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	267 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None
API support
DirectX	10.0	10.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	256 MB
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB / s	6.34 GB / s
Memory bus width	256 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	1400 MHz	792 MHz
Memory type	GDDR3	DDR2