Radeon HD 3850 and GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2 - video card comparison
Radeon HD 3850
GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV670
G94B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
668 MHz
650 MHz
Floating-point performance
427.5 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
55 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
20.80
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1660 MHz
1800 MBps
Memory bandwidth
53.12 GB/s
57.6 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