Radeon HD 3870 and Radeon 9600 XT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon HD 3870 vs Radeon 9600 XT
Radeon HD 3870
572
Radeon 9600 XT
36
Radeon HD 3870
Radeon 9600 XT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Rage 9 (2003−2008)
GPU code name
RV670
RV360
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2007
October 2003
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
777 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
497.3 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
666 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
320
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Power consumption (TDP)
106 Watt
22 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.43
2.000
Memory type
GDDR4
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
2252 MHz
600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
72.06 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
9.0 (9_0)
OpenCL
N/A
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
Shader Model
4.1
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A