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.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 OEM

ATI Radeon 9600 PRO

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	1098	1100
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