GeForce 9600 GSO vs FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 160W)
FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 7 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
704 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GSO
264
FireStream 9270
+354%
1200
Graphics Card
Apr 2008
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
800 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
384MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
38.40GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
800
48
TMUs
40
12
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
26.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
264.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
84W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
RV770
-
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
