NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 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
Lower TDP (95W vs 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 6 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Mac Edition
+1316%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jun 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1195 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
153.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
20
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1600
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
27.20 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
228W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-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
