NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM 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 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +1038%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

1280

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

74.00 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.368 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

148.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Curacao

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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