NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra vs ATI Radeon 9600 XT

What is the difference between NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra and ATI Radeon 9600 XT. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

GeForce2 Ultra

Radeon 9600 XT

Graphics Processor (GPU)

NV15	GPU Name	RV360
GeForce2 Ultra	Model number	RV360 XT (215R9JCGA13F)
Celsius	Architecture	Rage 9
TSMC	Foundry	TSMC
150 nm	Process Size	130 nm
25 million	Transistors	60 million
88 mm²	Die Size	76 mm²

Graphics Card

Aug 14th, 2000	Release Date	Oct 1st, 2003
GeForce 2	Family	Radeon R300 (9600)
End-of-life	Production	End-of-life
GeForce 2 MX	Predecessor	Radeon R200
AGP 4x	Bus Interface	AGP 8x

Memory

64 MB	Memory Size	128 MB
DDR	Memory Type	DDR
128 bit	Memory Bus	128 bit
7.360 GB/s	Bandwidth	9.600 GB/s

Performance

1.000 GPixel/s	Pixel fillrate	2.000 GPixel/s
2.000 GTexel/s	Texture fillrate	2.000 GTexel/s

Clock Speeds

230 MHz 460 Mbps effective	Memory Clock	300 MHz 600 Mbps effective
250 MHz	GPU Clock	500 MHz

Render Config

8	TMUs	4
4	ROPs	4
4	Pixel Shaders	4
N/A	Vertex Shaders	2

Board Design

Single-slot	Slot Width	Single-slot
unknown	Thermal design power (TDP)	22 W
200 W	Suggested PSU	200 W
1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video	Display Connectors	1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video
None	Power Connectors	None

API support

7.0	DirectX	9.0 (9_0)
1.5	OpenGL	2.0
N/A	OpenCL	N/A
N/A	Vulkan	N/A
0.5	Pixel Shader	2.0
N/A	Vertex Shader	2.0