Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4850
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Terascale 1 (2008−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV770
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
625 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,000.0 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
956 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
800
96
Power consumption (TDP)
110 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
25.00
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
993 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
63.55 GB/s
44.8 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
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A