ATI Radeon HD 4870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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ATI Radeon HD 4870 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 +331%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

May 2009

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

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

10

Compute Units

-

800

Shading Units

96

40

TMUs

48

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

9.280 GPixel/s

30.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

RV770

GPU Name

G92

RV770 XT (215-0669049)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.956 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

256 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

140W

450 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 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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