GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 3870 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon HD 3870
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon HD 3870
572
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 3870
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
November 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
777 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
497.3 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
320
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
12.43
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR4
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2252 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
72.06 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
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