GeForce 9600 GSO and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GSO vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 9600 GSO
337
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 9600 GSO
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
November 2007
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
26.4 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVIHDTV
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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