NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 8470 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM +19%

0.248 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8470 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.100 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.200 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

248.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

35W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Caicos

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Caicos XT (215-0804070)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

67 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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