ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X2 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (52.99GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X2 +62%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X2

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GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Apr 2008

Release Date

Apr 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

828 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

52.99GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

4

Compute Units

-

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

85.63 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G92

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

84W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

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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