ATI FireGL V3600 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 256MB VRAM FireGL V3600 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
ATI FireGL V3600 's Advantages
24 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (73W vs 140W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 256GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V3600
0.144 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
+93%
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2007
Release Date
May 2009
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
500 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
256MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.00GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
3
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
120
Shading Units
96
8
TMUs
48
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.400 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
4.800 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
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-
-
144.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
73W
TDP
140W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
No outputs
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
RV630
GPU Name
G92
RV630 GL
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.39 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
153 mm²
Die Size
324 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
