ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 4870 X2 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 X2 's Advantages

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

736 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 286W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 4870 X2 +525%

1.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 4870 X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Aug 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

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

115.2GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

10

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

800

Shading Units

64

40

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

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

-

1200 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

240.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

286W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

R700

GPU Name

G94

R700 XT (215-0669045)

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

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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