NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 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 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GSO
0.264 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+930%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
384MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
1600
48
TMUs
80
12
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
48 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
6.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
26.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
264.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
84W
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
G92
GPU Name
Cypress
-
GPU Variant
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
2.154 billion
324 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
