Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9600 GS OEM - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV770
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
625 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,000.0 gflops
120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
48
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
25.00
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
768 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
993 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
63.55 GB/s
48 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A