Radeon HD 5770 vs GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon HD 5770
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Oct 2009
Radeon HD 5770
GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5770

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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Radeon HD 5770

HWBench recommends Radeon HD 5770

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce 9600 GT
GPU NameJuniper (Juniper XT)vsG94 (G94-300-A1)
Fab Process40 nmvs65 nm
Die Size166 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs505 million
Shaders800vs64
Compute Units10vs4
Core clock850 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs40vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon HD 5770GeForce 9600 GT
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon HD 5770GeForce 9600 GT
TDP108 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date13 Oct 2009vs21 Feb 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    13.60 GP/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon HD 5770
    34.00 GT/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon HD 5770
    76.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon HD 5770
    1360.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better