GeForce GT 220 OEM vs ATI Radeon 9600

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking1455not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency0.51no data
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code nameRV350GT215
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)12 October 2009 (15 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 data48
Core clock speed324 MHz506 MHz
Number of transistors60 million727 million
Manufacturing process technology130 nm40 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt58 Watt
Texture fill rate1.2968.096
Floating-point processing powerno data0.09715 TFLOPS
ROPs48
TMUs416

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 2.0 x16
Lengthno data168 mm
Width1-slot1-slot
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 typeDDRGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount64 MB512 MB
Memory bus width128 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed189 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth6.048 GB/s22.4 GB/s

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 DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)11.1 (10_1)
Shader Modelno data4.1
OpenGL2.03.3
OpenCLN/A1.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.2

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 12 October 2009
Maximum RAM amount 64 MB 512 MB
Chip lithography 130 nm 40 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 58 Watt

ATI 9600 has 383.3% lower power consumption.

GT 220 OEM, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 6 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 225% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 and GeForce GT 220 OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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