AMD Radeon HD 6870 1600SP Edition 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1536 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 175W)