AMD Radeon HD 6970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 6970

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Released 2 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1472 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6970 +1307%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2010

Release Date

Dec 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

24

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1536

Shading Units

64

96

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.16 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

84.48 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

2.703 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

675.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

250W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cayman

GPU Name

G94

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 3

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.64 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

389 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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