ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

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ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 3870 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

288 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 55W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 3870 +427%

0.422 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 3870

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GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Jun 2008

M8x

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

32

16

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

10.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

422.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

84.48 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

M88

GPU Name

G96C

-

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

55W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

N/A

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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