ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
56 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (73W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT
+44%
0.208 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
Feb 2008
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
120
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G94
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
