GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and Radeon HD 3570 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Radeon HD 3570
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
RV620
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2008
July 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
796 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
63.68 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
181 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
40
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
30 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
15.6 billion/sec
3.184
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
990 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
7.92 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
2x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A