GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs Radeon HD 6850

GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Oct 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Radeon HD 6850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Oct 2010
Radeon HD 6850
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 6850

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon HD 6850

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSO 512Radeon HD 6850
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsBarts (Barts PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs255 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,700 million
Shaders48vs960
Compute Units3vs12
Core clock650 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSO 512Radeon HD 6850
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSO 512Radeon HD 6850
TDP90 wattsvs127 watts
Release Date23 Oct 2008vs21 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    10.40 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    24.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    15.60 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    37.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    156.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6850
    1488.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better