NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon HD 4520

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

ATI Radeon HD 4520

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4520 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 4520 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (25W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +189%

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4520

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon HD 4520

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Dec 2009

GeForce 9

Generation

Radeon R700

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

1

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

80

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.400 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

4.800 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

25W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

RV710

-

GPU Variant

RV710 (215-0725016)

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.242 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

73 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

10.1 (10_1)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

4.1

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