Radeon HD 3850 AGP and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850 AGP
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
May 2009
Interface
AGP 8x
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
668 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
10.69
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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