GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs Radeon HD 6850
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6850
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GSO 512 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
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GPU Name | G94 (G94-300-A1) | vs | Barts (Barts PRO) |
Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 240 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
Transistors | 505 million | vs | 1,700 million |
Shaders | 48 | vs | 960 |
Compute Units | 3 | vs | 12 |
Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 775 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
TMUs | 24 | vs | 48 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GSO 512 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9600 GSO 512 | | Radeon HD 6850 | |
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TDP | 90 watts | vs | 127 watts |
Release Date | 23 Oct 2008 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
10.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 6850
24.80 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
15.60 GT/s
Radeon HD 6850
37.20 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
57.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 6850
128.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
156.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 6850
1488.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better