GeForce 9600 GTX vs Radeon HD 6770

GeForce 9600 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2009
GeForce 9600 GTX
Radeon HD 6770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Jan 2011
Radeon HD 6770

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6770

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 6770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 6770

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTXRadeon HD 6770
GPU NameG92 ()vsJuniper (Juniper XT)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs166 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders96vs800
Compute Units6vs10
Core clock580 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs48vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTXRadeon HD 6770
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTXRadeon HD 6770
TDP140 wattsvs108 watts
Release Date27 May 2009vs21 Jan 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    9.28 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    13.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    27.80 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    34.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    44.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 6770
    76.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    278.40 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 6770
    1360.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better