Radeon R7 240 OEM vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R7 240 OEM 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock780MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
256 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 240 OEM
+139%
499
GeForce 9600 GT
208
Graphics Card
Nov 2013
Release Date
Feb 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x8
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
730 MHz
Base Clock
-
780 MHz
Boost Clock
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
28.80GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
5
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
320
Shading Units
64
20
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.240 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
15.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
499.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
31.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
50W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Oland
GPU Name
G94
-
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.95 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
77 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
