NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM vs ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM and ATI Radeon 9600 PRO 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: CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 0 month(s) later
  • Around 63% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 22.8x more texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
  • 8x more maximum memory size: 1 GB vs 128 MB
  • 5.7x more memory clock speed: 3400 MHz vs 600 MHz
Launch date 11 October 2010 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed 650 MHz vs 400 MHz
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s vs 1.6 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 1 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz vs 600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

  • 8.3x lower typical power consumption: 18 Watt vs 150 Watt
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 18 Watt vs 150 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

Name NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM ATI Radeon 9600 PRO
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 22.202
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 661.765
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.872
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 28.112
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 76.736
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3712
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3353
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3353
PassMark - G3D Mark 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 148

Compare specifications (specs)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

Essentials

Architecture Fermi Rage 8
Code name GF104 RV350
Launch date 11 October 2010 1 October 2003
Place in performance rating 1099 1101
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Core clock speed 650 MHz 400 MHz
Floating-point performance 873.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 40 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 336
Texture fill rate 36.4 GTexel / s 1.6 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt 18 Watt
Transistor count 1,950 million 76 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 210 mm
Supplementary power connectors 2x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12.0 (11_0) 9.0
OpenGL 4.6 2.0

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 128 MB
Memory bandwidth 108.8 GB / s 9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 3400 MHz 600 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR