AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (128.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 151W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition +651%

2.088 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 1440SP Edition

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

May 2009

Northern Islands

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

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

18

Compute Units

-

1440

Shading Units

96

72

TMUs

48

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

9.280 GPixel/s

52.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.088 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

417.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cypress

GPU Name

G92

Cypress PRO (215-0735043)

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

Board Design

151W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 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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