NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 and ATI Radeon 9600 XT 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: Geekbench - OpenCL, PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/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), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060

Videocard is newer: launch date 21 year(s) 9 month(s) later
5x more core clock speed: 2505 MHz vs 500 MHz
158400x more texture fill rate: 316.8 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 4 nm vs 130 nm
64x more maximum memory size: 8 GB vs 128 MB
3.8x more memory clock speed: 2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 600 MHz
7.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 1081 vs 147
563.5x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 19722 vs 35

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	2023 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	2505 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	316.8 GTexel/s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	8 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective vs 600 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G2D Mark	1081 vs 147
PassMark - G3D Mark	19722 vs 35

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

9.1x lower typical power consumption: 22 Watt vs 200 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt vs 200 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 XT

PassMark - G2D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

1081

147

PassMark - G3D Mark

GPU 1

GPU 2

19722

Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	101650
PassMark - G2D Mark	1081	147
PassMark - G3D Mark	19722	35
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	2302
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	311.253
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	33.932
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	169.697
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	1500.926
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	6622.553

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Ada Lovelace	Rage 9
Code name	AD106	RV360
Launch date	2023	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	75	1149
Type		Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	2640 MHz
Core clock speed	2505 MHz	500 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	4 nm	130 nm
Peak Double Precision (FP64) Performance	316.8 GFLOPS (1:64)
Peak Half Precision (FP16) Performance	20.28 TFLOPS (1:1)
Peak Single Precision (FP32) Performance	20.28 TFLOPS
Pipelines	3840
Pixel fill rate	126.7 GPixel/s
Texture fill rate	316.8 GTexel/s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	200 Watt	22 Watt
Transistor count		76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Form factor	Dual-slot
Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	AGP 8x
Recommended system power (PSU)	550 Watt
Supplementary power connectors	1x 12-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0
OpenCL	3.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Shader Model	6.7
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	128 bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz, 18 Gbps effective	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR6	DDR