ATI FireGL V8650 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 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 V8650 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
FireGL V8650
+58%
0.44 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2007
Release Date
May 2009
FireGL
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 1.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
868 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
111.1GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
4
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
320
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
11.01 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
11.01 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
440.3 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
140W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
R600
GPU Name
G92
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
GPU Variant
-
TeraScale
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
80 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.72 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
420 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
10.0 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
