NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3870 AGP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 106W)

ATI Radeon HD 3870 AGP 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

272 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP +218%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon HD 3870 AGP

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

AGP 8x

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1126 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.06GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.43 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.43 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

497.3 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

99.46 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

106W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV670

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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