ATI Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5870

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5870 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 188W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 5870 +930%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5870

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Sep 2009

Release Date

Apr 2008

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1600

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

188W

TDP

84W

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

G92

Cypress XT (215-0735033)

GPU Variant

-

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

324 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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