NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs ATI FireGL V8650
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM FireGL V8650 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 6 months late
ATI FireGL V8650 's Advantages
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
256 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
FireGL V8650
+111%
0.44 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Aug 2007
GeForce 9
Generation
FireGL
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
868 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
111.1GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
320
32
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.01 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.01 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
440.3 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
Unknown
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
R600
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
R600 V8650
(215RGIDKA13FG)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
80 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
