ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

VS

ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Mobility Radeon HD 5870 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 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

768 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Mobility Radeon HD 5870 +1300%

1.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

Mobility Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2010

Release Date

Jun 2008

Manhattan

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

800

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

28.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

1120 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

23W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Broadway

GPU Name

G96C

Broadway XT (216-0769008)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.04 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

166 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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