Radeon RX 6500 XT vs ATI 9600 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated216
Place by popularitynot in top-10082
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data58.33
Power efficiencyno data16.72
ArchitectureRage 9 (2003−2006)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameRV360Navi 24
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)19 January 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)no data$199

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 data1024
Core clock speed500 MHz2610 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2815 MHz
Number of transistors60 million5,400 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)22 Watt107 Watt
Texture fill rate2.000180.2
Floating-point processing powerno data5.765 TFLOPS
ROPs432
TMUs464
Ray Tracing Coresno data16

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).

InterfaceAGP 8xPCIe 4.0 x4
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsNone1x 6-pin

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 amount128 MB8 GB
Memory bus width128 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed300 MHz2248 MHz
Memory bandwidth9.6 GB/s143.9 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-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

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 data6.6
OpenGL2.04.6
OpenCLN/A2.2
VulkanN/A1.3

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



Passmark

This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.

ATI 9600 XT 35
RX 6500 XT 9569
+27240%

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 19 January 2022
Maximum RAM amount 128 MB 8 GB
Chip lithography 130 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 22 Watt 107 Watt

ATI 9600 XT has 386.4% lower power consumption.

RX 6500 XT, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 18 years, a 6300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 2066.7% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 XT and Radeon RX 6500 XT. We've got no test results to judge.


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