ATI Radeon HD 4850
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
ATI Radeon HD 4850
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

General info

The general info section in the graphics cards comparison list contains information about the date of release, type, overall rating and other useful data for identifying winner between ATI Radeon HD 4850  vs  NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT.

642
Place in performance rating
856
10.85
Value for money (0-100)
7.93
Terascale 1
Architecture
Tesla
RV770
Code name
G94
Desktop
Type
Desktop
25 June 2008 (13 years ago)
Release date
21 February 2008 (13 years ago)
$199
Launch price (MSRP)
$179
$171 (0.9x MSRP)
Price now
$129 (0.7x MSRP)
0.50
Value for money
0.13
RV770
GPU code name
G94
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Which GPU is better between ATI Radeon HD 4850  vs  NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT in the fabrication process, power consumption, and also base and turbo frequency of the GPU is the most important part containing in the graphics cards hierarchy.

800
Pipelines
64
625 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
956 million
Transistor count
505 million
55 nm
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
110 Watt
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
25.00
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
1,000.0 gflops
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
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Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
no data
CUDA cores
64
800
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
956 million
Number of transistors
505 million
110 Watt
Thermal design power (TDP)
96 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Let’s discuss how graphics cards ATI Radeon HD 4850 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT come in different sizes (length), connector types and types of interfaces.

PCIe 2.0 x16
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
246 mm
Length
9" (22.9 cm)
1x 6-pin
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
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SLI options
+
no data
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
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Height
4.376" (11.1 cm)

Memory

Graphics cards memory plays important role both in gaming and in applications for graphics. The card will perform much quicker and better, if it has more memory capacity and right memory type. What is the difference between ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT.

GDDR3
Memory type
GDDR3
512 MB
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 Bit
Memory bus width
256 Bit
993 MHz
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
63.55 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

Let’s find out the difference in extra ports between two graphics cards. What's the difference between ATI Radeon HD 4850 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT.

2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
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Multi monitor support
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
no data
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF

Technologies

Let’s have a look what is the difference. It is worthwhile to note that NVIDIA and AMD are using different technologies.

no data
3D Vision
+
no data
CUDA
+

API support

The confrontation between the two contenders ATI Radeon HD 4850 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT is practically over. The hardware support (API) does not greatly affect the overall performance, it is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and other performance tests. 

10.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
2.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for ATI Radeon HD 4850 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4850
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Death Stranding (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4850
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
F1 2020 (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4850
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Gears Tactics (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4850
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Doom Eternal (2020) ATI Radeon HD 4850
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Legend
5 Stutters – This game is very likely to stutter and have poor frame rates. Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, average frame rates are expected to fall below 25fps
May Stutter – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, stutters and poor frame rates are expected.
30 Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 25fps
40 Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 35fps
60 Fluent – Based on all known benchmarks using the specified graphical settings, this game should run at or above 58fps
May Run Fluently – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game. Based on interpolated information from surrounding graphics cards of similar performance levels, fluent frame rates are expected.
? Uncertain – This graphics card experienced unexpected performance issues during testing for this game. A slower card may be able to achieve better and more consistent frame rates than this particular GPU running the same benchmark scene.
Uncertain – This graphics card has not been explicitly tested on this game and no reliable interpolation can be made based on the performances of surrounding cards of the same class or family.
The value in the fields displays the average frame rate of all values in the database. Move your cursor over the value to see individual results.

Advantages of ATI Radeon HD 4850

2.5% faster in synthetic tests

More pipelines (800 vs 64)

Finer manufacturing process technology (55 nm vs 65 nm)

More memory bandwidth (63.55 GB/s vs 57.6 GB/s)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Cheaper ($129 (0.7x MSRP) vs $171 (0.9x MSRP))

Less power consumption (96 Watt vs 110 Watt)

So, ATI Radeon HD 4850 or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend ATI Radeon HD 4850 .

ATI Radeon HD 4850 versus NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

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User rating

4.3 Out of 34 Hitesti Score
1.7 Out of 475 Hitesti Score