NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI FireGL V8600

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

ATI FireGL V8600

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM FireGL V8600 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Lower TDP (95W vs 159W)

ATI FireGL V8600 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

FireGL V8600 +111%

0.44 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

FireGL V8600

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 9

Generation

FireGL

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

868 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

512bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

111.1GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.01 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.01 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

440.3 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

159W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

R600

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 V8600

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

80 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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