NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +1643%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 9

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1600

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.20 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

68.00 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.720 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

544.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

228W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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