Radeon HD 3850 AGP vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 3850 AGP |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 3850 AGP
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | RV670 (RV670 PRO) | vs | G94 (G94-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 55 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 192 mm² | vs | 240 mm² |
| Transistors | 666 million | vs | 505 million |
| Shaders | 320 | vs | 64 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 668 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 16 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 828 MHz
1656 MHz effective | vs | 266 MHz
532 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon HD 3850 AGP | | GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 95 watts |
| Release Date | 3 Jan 2008 | vs | 22 Dec 2008 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better