Radeon RX Vega 7 vs ATI 9600

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated531
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Power efficiencyno data34.97
ArchitectureRage 8 (2002−2007)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameRV350Vega Raven Ridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date1 October 2003 (21 year ago)7 January 2020 (4 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 data448
Core clock speed324 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors60 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology130 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)12 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate1.296no data
ROPs4no data
TMUs4no data

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 8xno data
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 typeDDRno data
Maximum RAM amount64 MBno data
Memory bus width128 Bitno data
Memory clock speed189 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth6.048 GB/sno data
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 data

API compatibility

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

DirectX9.0 (9_0)12_1
OpenGL2.0no data
OpenCLN/Ano data
VulkanN/A-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 October 2003 7 January 2020
Chip lithography 130 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 12 Watt 15 Watt

ATI 9600 has 25% lower power consumption.

RX Vega 7, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon 9600 and Radeon RX Vega 7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon 9600 is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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