ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1536 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 228W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 +1207%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1600

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

228W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G94

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

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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