GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT |
| 90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7870 XT . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 7870 XT |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7870 XT
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GT | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G94 (G94-300-A1) | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti LE) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 240 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 505 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 64 | vs | 1536 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 24 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 925 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 96 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GT | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9600 GT | | Radeon HD 7870 XT | |
|---|
| TDP | 95 watts | vs | 185 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Feb 2008 | vs | 19 Nov 2012 |
GeForce 9600 GT
10.40 GP/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
29.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GT
20.80 GT/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
88.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GT
57.60 GB/s
Radeon HD 7870 XT
192.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GT
208.00 GFLOPs
Radeon HD 7870 XT
2842.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better