AMD Radeon HD 6870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD Radeon HD 6870 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6870 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 6870 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1072 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6870 +1580%

2.016 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6870

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GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2010

Release Date

Jul 2008

Northern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

134.4GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

14

Compute Units

-

1120

Shading Units

48

56

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

50.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.016 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Barts

GPU Name

G94

Barts XT (215-0798000)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

255 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

151W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.4

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.0

Shader Model

4.0

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