ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit vs PowerColor Radeon 9600 XT 128MB (R96T-TC3)

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ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit vs PowerColor Radeon 9600 XT 128MB (R96T-TC3)

Theoretical performance comparison

Real-world game, 3D graphics and compute performance depends on several GPU parameters, including single- and double-precision performance, pixel fillrate, texture fillrate, along with memory bandwidth. Below you will find why they are important, and which graphics card has better characteristics.

Pixel fill rate (gigapixels/s)

3.2

2.4

1.6

0.8

3.04

Higher is better

Despite of lower graphics clock rate, the ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit has much higher pixel fill rate, thanks to twice as many ROPs. Having better pixel fillrate allows the GPU to draw more pixels on screen and off screen, which is beneficial for some 3D effects in games, or when playing at higher display resolutions.

- ATI Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit

- PowerColor Radeon 9600 XT 128MB

Texture fill rate (gigatexels/s)

3.2

2.4

1.6

0.8

3.04

Higher is better

Even though its graphics frequency is lower, the Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit comes with twice as many Texture Mapping Units (TMUs), resulting in significantly better texture fill rate. Better maximum texture fill rate means that the card can use more sophisticated 3D effects and/or apply more textures to each textured picture element, which improves visual appearance of games and generated images.

Memory bandwidth (GB/s)

10.9

9.6

Higher is better

To speed up processing, the graphics cards store 3D scene data, textures and intermediate data, used for image generation, in on-board memory. The video memory usually has much higher bandwidth than system RAM, and more bandwidth allows the graphics card to run at higher screen resolutions, use larger and more detailed textures, and apply more complex 3D effects and filters. Memory type, speed, and memory interface width all affect the bandwidth value. In this case, higher memory bandwidth of the Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit graphics card is a result of higher memory clock.

Specs comparison

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General information
Market segment	Desktop
Manufacturer	ATI	PowerColor
Model	Radeon 9800 PRO 128-bit	Radeon 9600 XT 128MB
Part number		R96T-TC3
Based on	N/A	ATI Radeon 9600 XT
Architecture / Interface
Die name
Fabrication process
Bus interface
Cores / shaders
Color ROPs
Pixel shader processors
Pixel fill rate
Vertex shader processors
Texture units
Texture fill rate
Clocks / Memory
Graphics clock	380 MHz	500 MHz
Memory size	128 MB
Memory type	DDR
Memory clock
Memory interface width
Memory bandwidth
Other features
Maximum power