GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 8570 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon HD 8570 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

G94

Oland

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

January 2013

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Boost clock speed

-

780 MHz

Core clock speed

650 MHz

730 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

599.0 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

950 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

384

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

50 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

18.72

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

2 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

1800 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

-

+

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131