GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon HD 4850

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking812not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation0.26no data
Power efficiency1.66no data
ArchitectureTeraScale (2005−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameRV770G92
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date25 June 2008 (16 years ago)27 May 2009 (15 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$199 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores80096
Core clock speed625 MHz580 MHz
Number of transistors956 million754 million
Manufacturing process technology55 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)110 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rate25.0027.84
Floating-point processing power1 TFLOPS0.2784 TFLOPS
ROPs1616
TMUs4048

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 2.0 x16
Length246 mm267 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MB512 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed993 MHz700 MHz
Memory bandwidth63.55 GB/s44.8 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX10.1 (10_1)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.14.0
OpenGL3.33.3
OpenCL1.11.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 25 June 2008 27 May 2009
Chip lithography 55 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 110 Watt 140 Watt

ATI HD 4850 has a 18.2% more advanced lithography process, and 27.3% lower power consumption.

9600 GTX, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 11 months.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4850 and GeForce 9600 GTX. We've got no test results to judge.


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