NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 4870

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

ATI Radeon HD 4870

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

752 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 +669%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon HD 4870

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

115.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

800

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV770

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.956 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

256 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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