AMD Radeon HD 7870M vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

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AMD Radeon HD 7870M NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870M and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7870M 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (64.00GB/s vs 25.60GB/s)

608 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7870M +1180%

1.024 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870M

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GeForce 9600M GT

Graphics Card

Apr 2012

Release Date

Jun 2008

London

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

64.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

32

40

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

12.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

32.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1024 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

64.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Heathrow

GPU Name

G96C

Heathrow XT (216-0835033)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

45W

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

No outputs

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

None

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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