ATI Radeon 9600 SE vs RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking479not rated
Place by popularity29not in top-100
Power efficiency41.61no data
ArchitectureVega (2017−2020)Rage 8 (2002−2007)
GPU code nameVegaRV350
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date7 January 2020 (4 years ago)1 October 2003 (21 year 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 cores512no data
Core clock speedno data325 MHz
Boost clock speed2100 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data60 million
Manufacturing process technology7 nm130 nm
Power consumption (TDP)15 Wattno data
Texture fill rateno data1.300
ROPsno data4
TMUsno data4

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).

Interfaceno dataAGP 8x
Widthno data1-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno dataNone

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 typeno dataDDR
Maximum RAM amountno data64 MB
Memory bus widthno data64 Bit
Memory clock speedno data200 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data3.2 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 Connectorsno data1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_19.0 (9_0)
OpenGLno data2.0
OpenCLno dataN/A
Vulkan-N/A

Pros & cons summary


Recency 7 January 2020 1 October 2003
Chip lithography 7 nm 130 nm

RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) has an age advantage of 16 years, and a 1757.1% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) and Radeon 9600 SE. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000) is a notebook card while Radeon 9600 SE is a desktop one.


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AMD Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
Radeon RX Vega 8 (Ryzen 4000/5000)
ATI Radeon 9600 SE
Radeon 9600 SE

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