AMD Radeon E8870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

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AMD Radeon E8870

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon E8870 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon E8870 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GS 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 75W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon E8870 +2126%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GS

0.069 TFLOPS

Radeon E8870

VS

GeForce 9600M GS

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

Embedded

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

MXM-B (3.0)

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

4

768

Shading Units

32

48

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.440 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.880 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

68.80 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

75W

TDP

20W

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G96C

Saturn PRO

GPU Variant

NB9P-GE2

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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