ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.06GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (106W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition +78%

0.497 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 3870 Mac Edition

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2009

Radeon R600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1126 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.06GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

4

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

16

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

12.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

12.43 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

497.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

99.46 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV670

GPU Name

G92

RV670 XT (215-0708005)

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

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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