NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

2512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +3940%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Jul 2008

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

768MB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

512bit

48.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2560

24

TMUs

160

12

ROPs

64

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

48 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.000 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

12.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

120.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Hawaii

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.3

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