ATI FireGL V8650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8650
+111%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
Feb 2008
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
320
Shading Units
64
16
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
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
G94
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
240 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
