AMD Radeon HD 7850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7850

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7850 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 7850 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

976 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 130W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7850 +1028%

1.761 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7850

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Oct 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

16

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1024

Shading Units

48

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

27.52 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

55.04 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

1.761 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

110.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

130W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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