NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs 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
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
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
Compute Units
10
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
800
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
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 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
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
