ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 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 4870 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +525%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Dec 2008

Radeon R700

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

64

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G94

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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