Radeon HD 3870 X2 and GeForce 9600 GSO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 X2 vs GeForce 9600 GSO
Radeon HD 3870 X2
729
GeForce 9600 GSO
337
Radeon HD 3870 X2
GeForce 9600 GSO
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
R680
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
January 2008
April 2008
Bus support
-
PCI-E 2.0
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
550 MHz
CUDA cores
-
96
Floating-point performance
2x 528.0 gflops
264 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
96
Power consumption (TDP)
165 Watt
105 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
13.20
26.4 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
384 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1802 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.66 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
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