NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD FireStream 9270
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM FireStream 9270 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 160W)
AMD FireStream 9270 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (115.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
736 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
FireStream 9270
+476%
1.2 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Nov 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
FireStream
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
115.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
10
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
800
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.00 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
30.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1200 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
240.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
160W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
RV770
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
RV770 XT
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
55 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.956 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
256 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
