NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD Radeon R7 240

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

AMD Radeon R7 240

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

272 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240 +219%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon R7 240

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

730 MHz

-

Boost Clock

780 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

5

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

20

16

ROPs

8

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.240 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

499.2 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

30W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Oland

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.95 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

77 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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