Radeon R9 280 vs GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 280 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1696 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+1102%
3344
GeForce 9600 GTX
278
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
May 2009
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1792
Shading Units
96
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
140W
550 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G92
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
352 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