Radeon HD 4860 and GeForce 9600 GT - video card comparison
Radeon HD 4860
GeForce 9600 GT
Architecture
TeraScale (2005−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
RV790
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2009
February 2008
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
700 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
64
Floating-point performance
896.0 gflops
208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
959 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
64
Power consumption (TDP)
130 Watt
96 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
22.40
20.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
3000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
96 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
10.1 (10_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A