ATI Radeon 9600 TX vs GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking93not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitecturePascal (2016−2021)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code namePascal GP104 SLIR300
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date16 August 2016 (8 years ago)7 October 2003 (21 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores4096no data
Core clock speed1443 MHz297 MHz
Boost clock speed1645 MHzno data
Number of transistors14400 Million110 million
Manufacturing process technology16 nm150 nm
Texture fill rateno data2.376
ROPsno data8
TMUsno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargeno data
Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataFloppy
SLI options+-

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5DDR
Maximum RAM amount2x 8 GB128 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed8000 MHz270 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data8.64 GB/s
Shared memory-no data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectorsno data2x VGA, 1x S-Video
G-SYNC support+-

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready+no data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12_19.0 (9_0)
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan+N/A
CUDA+-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 16 August 2016 7 October 2003
Chip lithography 16 nm 150 nm

GTX 1070 SLI Mobile has an age advantage of 12 years, and a 837.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile and Radeon 9600 TX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile is a notebook card while Radeon 9600 TX is a desktop one.


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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile
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