Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
928 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
+581%
1894
GeForce 9600 GTX
278
Graphics Card
Mar 2015
Release Date
May 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
900 MHz
Base Clock
-
925 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1200 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
153.6GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
16
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1024
Shading Units
96
64
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
59.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
1.894 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
118.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Pitcairn
GPU Name
G92
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.8 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
212 mm²
Die Size
324 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