Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1504 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 228W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
+878%
2720
GeForce 9600 GTX
278
Graphics Card
Mar 2010
Release Date
May 2009
Evergreen
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
20
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1600
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.20 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
68.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
2.720 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
544.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
228W
TDP
140W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.1
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cypress
GPU Name
G92
Cypress XT
(215-0735033)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.154 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
334 mm²
Die Size
324 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