NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs ATI Radeon HD 5870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

ATI Radeon HD 5870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 +2166%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

Radeon HD 5870

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1600

24

TMUs

80

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

120.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

188W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Cypress

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.154 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

334 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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