AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1552 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition +2166%

2.72 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

Jul 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

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1600

Shading Units

48

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

68.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

2.720 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

544.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-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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