AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

912 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 254W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6850 X2 +884%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6850 X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2011

Release Date

Oct 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

12

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

960

Shading Units

48

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

38.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

254W

TDP

90W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94

Barts PRO (215-0798006)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

255 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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