ATI Radeon 9800 XT vs RX 7600

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	88	not rated
Place by popularity	86	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	92.28	no data
Power efficiency	17.95	no data
Architecture	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)	Rage 9 (2003−2006)
GPU code name	Navi 33	R360
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	24 May 2023 (1 year ago)	1 October 2003 (21 year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$269	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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 cores	2048	no data
Core clock speed	1720 MHz	412 MHz
Boost clock speed	2655 MHz	no data
Number of transistors	13,300 million	117 million
Manufacturing process technology	6 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	60 Watt
Texture fill rate	339.8	3.296
Floating-point processing power	21.75 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	64	8
TMUs	128	8
Ray Tracing Cores	32	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x8	AGP 8x
Length	204 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	1x 8-pin	1x Molex

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 type	GDDR6	DDR
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Memory bus width	128 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	365 MHz
Memory bandwidth	288.0 GB/s	23.36 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 3x DisplayPort 2.1	1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI	+	-

API compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	9.0
Shader Model	6.7	no data
OpenGL	4.6	2.0
OpenCL	2.2	N/A
Vulkan	1.3	N/A

Synthetic benchmark performance

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

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Pros & cons summary

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Recency	24 May 2023	1 October 2003
Maximum RAM amount	8 GB	256 MB
Chip lithography	6 nm	150 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	165 Watt	60 Watt

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