Facelift: The ATi Radeon 9600 XT
Features
By Lars Weinand
published Introduction, Continued
The new Radeon 9600 XT and its competitors:
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Header Cell - Column 0 | ATI Radeon 9500 PRO | ATI Radeon 9600 PRO | ATI Radeon 9600 XT | NVIDIA GeForce 4 Ti 4200-8x | NVIDIA GeForce FX 5600 Ultra |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Chip Technology | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit | 256-bit |
Process | 0.15 Micron | 0.13 Micron | 0.13 Micron | 0.15 Micron | 0.13 Micron |
Transistors | ~107 Mio | ~75 Mio | ~75 Mio | ~63 Mio | ~80 Mio |
Memory Bus | 128-bit DDR | 128-bit DDR | 128-bit DDR | 128-bit DDR | 128-bit DDR |
Memory Bandwidth | 8.8 GB/s | 9.6 GB/s | 9.6 GB/s | 8.0 GB/s | 12.8 GB/s |
Pixel Fillrate | 2.2 Gigapixel/s | 1.6 Gigapixel/s | 2.0 Gigapixel/s | 1.1 Gigapixel/s | 1.6 Gigapixel/s |
Anti Aliased Fillrate | 13.2 Billion AA Samples/s | 9.6 Billion AA Samples/s | 12 Billion AA Samples/s | 4 Billion AA Samples/s | 5.6 Billion AA Samples/s |
AGP Bus | 1x/2x/4x/8x | 1x/2x/4x/8x | 1x/2x/4x/8x | 1x/2x/4x/8x | 1x/2x/4x/8x |
Triangles/s | 275M | 200M | 250M | 113M | 100M |
Memory | 128 MB | 128/256/MB | 128/256 MB | 64/128 MB | 128/256 MB |
GPU Clock | 275 MHz | 400 MHz | 500 MHz | 250 MHz | 400 MHz |
Memory Clock | 275 MHz (550 DDR) | 300 MHz (600 DDR) | 300 MHz (600 DDR) | 257 MHz (514 DDR) | 400 MHz (800 DDR) |
Vertex Shader | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 (Array) |
Pixel Pipelines | 8 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
Texture Units Per Pipe | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
Textures per Texture Unit | 16 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 16 |
Vertex S. Version | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.1 | 2.0 |
Pixel S. Version | 2.0 | 2.0 | 2.0 | 1.3 | 2.0 |
DirectX Generation | 9.0 | 9.0 | 9.0 | 8.1 | 9.0 |
FSAA Modi | MultiSamplingMax 6x | MultiSamplingMax 6x | MultiSamplingMax 6x | MultiSamplingMax 4x | MultiSamplingMax 4xMixedModesMax 8x |
Anisotropic Filtering | 2/4/8/16x | 2/4/8/16x | 2/4/8/16x | 2/4/8x | 2/4/8x |
Memory Optmizations | Hyper Z III | Hyper Z III+ | Hyper Z III+ | LMA II | IntelliSample |
Optmizations | SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.0 | SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.1 | SmartShader 2.0SmoothVision 2.1 | nFiniteFX IIAccuview | CineFXIntelliSample |
Display Outputs | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |
Chip Internal Ramdacs | 2 x 400 MHz | 2 x 400 MHz | 2 x 400 MHz | 2 x 400 MHz | 2 x 400 MHz |
Chip External Ramdacs | - | - | - | - | - |
Bits per Color Channel | 10 | 10 | 10 | 8 | 10 |
Special | TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering | TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering | TV Encoder On-Chip; FullStreamAdaptive Filtering | Row 27 - Cell 4 | TV Encoder On-Chip;Adaptive Filtering, DirectX 9+ |
Street-Price (+tax) | ~ $160 | ~ $150 | $199(official ATI price) | ~ $90 | ~$150-180Beware of Flipchip version (400 MHz Core)! |
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