GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon HD 6870
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition |
| 56 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 6870 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 6870 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 6870
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G94 (G94-300-A1) | vs | Barts (Barts XT) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 240 mm² | vs | 255 mm² |
| Transistors | 505 million | vs | 1,700 million |
| Shaders | 64 | vs | 1120 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 14 |
| Core clock | 600 MHz | vs | 900 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 56 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR2 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 266 MHz
532 MHz effective | vs | 1050 MHz
4200 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 1024 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | | Radeon HD 6870 | |
|---|
| TDP | 95 watts | vs | 151 watts |
| Release Date | 22 Dec 2008 | vs | 21 Oct 2010 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better