NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

ATI Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (108.8GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition +525%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jan 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

266 MHz

Memory Clock

850 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

108.8GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

10

64

Shading Units

800

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.00 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

30.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1200 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

240.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV770

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV770 XT Mac (215-0669080)

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

Board Design

95W

TDP

150W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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