ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5850

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5850 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1392 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +1238%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Oct 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

18

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1440

Shading Units

48

72

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

151W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G94

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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