NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +1873%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

12

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

120.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Curacao

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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