NVIDIA Tesla M2090 vs ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA Tesla M2090 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, 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), PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

NVIDIA Tesla M2090

ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA Tesla M2090

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 9 month(s) later
Around 30% higher core clock speed: 650 MHz vs 500 MHz
18.2x more texture fill rate: 36.4 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 40 nm vs 130 nm
48x more maximum memory size: 6 GB vs 128 MB
6.2x more memory clock speed: 3700 MHz vs 600 MHz

Launch date	25 July 2011 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed	650 MHz vs 500 MHz
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s vs 2 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size	6 GB vs 128 MB
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz vs 600 MHz

Reasons to consider the ATI Radeon 9600 XT

11.4x lower typical power consumption: 22 Watt vs 250 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	22 Watt vs 250 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA Tesla M2090
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 XT

Name	NVIDIA Tesla M2090	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Geekbench - OpenCL	11728
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	33.87
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	1127.187
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	3.833
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	57.33
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	119.136
PassMark - G3D Mark		35
PassMark - G2D Mark		147

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA Tesla M2090	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Essentials
Architecture	Fermi 2.0	Rage 9
Code name	GF110	RV360
Launch date	25 July 2011	1 October 2003
Place in performance rating	1107	1110
Type	Workstation	Desktop
Technical info
Core clock speed	650 MHz	500 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,331.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	40 nm	130 nm
Pipelines	512
Texture fill rate	36.4 GTexel / s	2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	250 Watt	22 Watt
Transistor count	3,000 million	76 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	AGP 8x
Length	248 mm
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (11_0)	9.0
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	6 GB	128 MB
Memory bandwidth	177.6 GB / s	9.6 GB / s
Memory bus width	384 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	3700 MHz	600 MHz
Memory type	GDDR5	DDR