NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 5970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 294W)

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970 +1015%

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Nov 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

128.0GB/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

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.20 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

58.00 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.320 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

464.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

294W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Hemlock

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

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

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