Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce 9600 GSO 512 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
339
Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R680
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
October 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
6-pin
SLI options
-
2-way
Core clock speed
825 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 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)
165 Watt
90 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
13.20
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
1802 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.66 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