NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 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 228W)
ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+1207%
2.72 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Mar 2010
GeForce 9
Generation
Evergreen
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/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
27.20 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
68.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.720 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
544.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
228W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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
