ATI Radeon HD 4860 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4860

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4860 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 4860 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (130W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4860 +222%

0.896 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4860

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

May 2009

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

750 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

640

Shading Units

96

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

896.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

179.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

RV790

GPU Name

G92

RV790 GT

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.959 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

282 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

10.1 (10_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

4.1

Shader Model

4.0

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