ATI Radeon 9600 vs ATI HD 4870 Mac Edition
Contents
Primary details
GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | 1518 |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | not in top-100 |
| Power efficiency | no data | 0.51 |
| Architecture | TeraScale (2005−2013) | Rage 8 (2002−2007) |
| GPU code name | RV770 | RV350 |
| Market segment | Desktop | Desktop |
| Release date | 6 January 2009 (16 years ago) | 1 October 2003 (22 years ago) |
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 cores | 800 | no data |
| Core clock speed | 750 MHz | 324 MHz |
| Number of transistors | 956 million | 60 million |
| Manufacturing process technology | 55 nm | 130 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | 12 Watt |
| Texture fill rate | 30.00 | 1.296 |
| Floating-point processing power | 1.2 TFLOPS | no data |
| ROPs | 16 | 4 |
| TMUs | 40 | 4 |
| L1 Cache | 160 KB | no data |
| L2 Cache | 256 KB | no data |
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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | AGP 8x |
| Length | 250 mm | no data |
| Width | 2-slot | 1-slot |
| Supplementary power connectors | 2x 6-pin | None |
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 type | GDDR5 | DDR |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 64 MB |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | 128 Bit |
| Memory clock speed | 850 MHz | 189 MHz |
| Memory bandwidth | 108.8 GB/s | 6.048 GB/s |
Connectivity and outputs
This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.
| Display Connectors | 1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort | 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.
| DirectX | 10.1 (10_1) | 9.0 (9_0) |
| Shader Model | 4.1 | no data |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | 2.0 |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | N/A |
| Vulkan | N/A | N/A |
Pros & cons summary
| Recency | 6 January 2009 | 1 October 2003 |
| Maximum RAM amount | 512 MB | 64 MB |
| Chip lithography | 55 nm | 130 nm |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 150 Watt | 12 Watt |
ATI HD 4870 Mac Edition has an age advantage of 5 years, a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 136.4% more advanced lithography process.
ATI 9600, on the other hand, has 1150% lower power consumption.
We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 4870 Mac Edition and Radeon 9600. We've got no test results to judge.
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