ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 3850 X3 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3850 X3 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (54.40GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 145W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3850 X3 +122%

0.428 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3850 X3

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Dec 2008

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

850 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

54.40GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

320

Shading Units

64

16

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

10.70 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

428.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

145W

TDP

95W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

4x DVI

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G94

RV670 PRO (215-0708003)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.666 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

192 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

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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