NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

ATI Radeon HD 5850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 151W)

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850 +1238%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon HD 5850

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Sep 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

18

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1440

24

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

52.20 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.088 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

417.6 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

151W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 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 PRO (215-0735043)

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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