ATI FireGL V8600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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ATI FireGL V8600

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

Lower TDP (140W vs 159W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

FireGL V8600 +58%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

May 2007

Release Date

May 2009

FireGL

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 1.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

868 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.1GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.01 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

11.01 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

440.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

159W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R600

GPU Name

G92

R600 V8600

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

80 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.72 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

420 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

10.0 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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