AMD Radeon 540 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD Radeon 540

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

288 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (50W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

AMD Radeon 540 +226%

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

May 2009

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

32bit

Memory Bus

256bit

24.00GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

6

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

384

Shading Units

96

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

18.93 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

28.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

908.5 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

908.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

56.78 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

50W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Lexa

GPU Name

G92

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

103 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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