GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 4870 X2 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon HD 4870 X2
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon HD 4870 X2
1348
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 4870 X2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
R700
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
August 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
700 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
2x 1,120.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
956 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
800
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
286 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
28.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
3600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
115.2 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
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A