NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 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 300W)
AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1056 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6870 X2
+950%
2.016 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Jul 2011
GeForce 9
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1120
32
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.80 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
50.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.016 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
-
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Barts
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Barts XT
(215-0798000)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
255 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
