ATI Radeon HD 5850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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ATI Radeon HD 5850 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5850 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 5850 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1376 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5850 +987%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5850

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Dec 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

64

72

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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

Board Design

151W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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