Radeon HD 3850 X2 and GeForce 9600 GSO 512 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3850 X2 vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Radeon HD 3850 X2
847
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
339
Radeon HD 3850 X2
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
6-pin
SLI options
-
2-way
Core clock speed
669 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
2x 428.2 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
48
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
90 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
10.70
15.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1656 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
52.99 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A