Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
December 2008
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
668 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
64
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
19.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
17.02 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A