NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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
Lower TDP (95W vs 286W)
ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 4870 X2
+525%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon R700
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/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
286W
250 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R700
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R700 XT
(215-0669045)
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
