AMD Radeon HD 6570 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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Graphics Processor

GPU model Thames G94
GPU variant Thames XTX G94-300-A1
Architecture TeraScale 2 Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 40 nm 65 nm
Number of transistors 716 million 505 million
Die size 104 mm² 240 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 7th, 2011 Feb 21st, 2008
Generation Northern Islands GeForce 9
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 7 in our database 151 in our database
Predecessor Evergreen GeForce 8
Successor Southern Islands GeForce 200
Launch price 179 USD

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 650 MHz
Memory clock 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective
Shader clock 1625 MHz

Memory Configuration

Memory size 1024 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 128 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 16.00 GB/s 57.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 480 64
TMUs 24 32
ROPs 8 16
Compute units 6
Cache L1 8 KB (per CU)
Cache L2 256 KB 64 KB
SM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 5.200 GPixel/s 10.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 15.60 GTexel/s 20.80 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 624.0 GFLOPS 208.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 168 mm 6.6 inches 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 44 W 95 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 250 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI1x VGA 2x DVI1x S-Video
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number C239 P545

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.2 (11_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 4.4 3.3
OpenCL 1.2 1.1
Vulkan
Shader model 5.0 4.0
CUDA 1.1

Other Features

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