NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 3690

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

ATI Radeon HD 3690

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 256MB VRAM Radeon HD 3690 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 26.56GB/s)

ATI Radeon HD 3690 's Advantages

256 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (75W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3690 +106%

0.429 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 3690

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Mar 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

830 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

26.56GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

320

32

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.72 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

10.72 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

428.8 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.76 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

75W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

RV670

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.666 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

192 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

1.1

OpenCL

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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