NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD Radeon HD 7850

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7850 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850 +533%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon HD 7850

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

16

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

27.52 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

55.04 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.761 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

110.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

130W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

G92

GPU Name

Pitcairn

-

GPU Variant

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

324 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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