NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 500W)

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +2328%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

500W

250 W

Suggested PSU

900 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

New Zealand

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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