GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile vs ATI Radeon 9600 SE

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated127
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.22
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Ampere (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV350GA104
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)12 January 2021 (3 years 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 coresno data5120
Core clock speed325 MHz1110 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1560 MHz
Number of transistors60 million17,400 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm8 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data125 Watt
Texture fill rate1.300249.6
Floating-point processing powerno data15.97 TFLOPS
ROPs480
TMUs4160
Tensor Coresno data160
Ray Tracing Coresno data40

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 sizeno datalarge
InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x16
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneno data

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 typeDDRGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount64 MB8 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed200 MHz1750 MHz
Memory bandwidth3.2 GB/s448.0 GB/s
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Modelno data6.5
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.0
VulkanN/A1.2
CUDA-8.6

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 12 January 2021
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 8 nm

RTX 3070 Mobile has an age advantage of 17 years, a 12700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 1525% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 SE and GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9600 SE is a desktop card while GeForce RTX 3070 Mobile is a notebook one.


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