AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 300W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 X2 +950%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870 X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2011

Release Date

Feb 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

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1120

Shading Units

64

56

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

300W

TDP

95W

700 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94

Barts XT (215-0798000)

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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