ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

What is the difference between ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5870 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX. Find out which graphics card has better performance.

Graphics Processor (GPU)

BroadwayGPU NameG92
TeraScale 2ArchitectureTesla
TSMCFoundryTSMC
40 nmProcess Size65 nm
1,040 millionTransistors754 million
166 mm²Die Size324 mm²

Graphics Card

Jan 7th, 2010Release DateMay 27th, 2009
Manhattan
(Mobility HD 5800)
FamilyGeForce 9
(9600)
End-of-lifeProductionEnd-of-life
M9xPredecessorGeForce 8
MXM-B (3.0)Bus InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16

Memory

1024 MBMemory Size512 MB
GDDR5Memory TypeGDDR3
128 bitMemory Bus256 bit
64.00 GB/sBandwidth44.80 GB/s

Performance

11.20 GPixel/sPixel fillrate9.280 GPixel/s
28.00 GTexel/sTexture fillrate27.84 GTexel/s
1,120 GFLOPSFP32 (float) performance278.4 GFLOPS

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz
4 Gbps effective
Memory Clock700 MHz
1400 Mbps effective
700 MHzGPU Clock580 MHz

Render Config

800Shading Units96
40TMUs48
16ROPs16
256 KBL2 Cache64 KB

Board Design

MXM ModuleSlot WidthDual-slot
50 WThermal design power (TDP)140 W
No outputsDisplay Connectors2x DVI
1x S-Video

API support

11.2 (11_0)DirectX11.1 (10_0)
4.4OpenGL3.3
1.2OpenCL1.1
N/AVulkanN/A
5.0Shader Model4.0