NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD Radeon R9 285X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

AMD Radeon R9 285X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages

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 R9 285X +2530%

4.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon R9 285X

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic 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

32.06 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.3 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.104 TFLOPS

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 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

Tonga

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tonga XT (215-0851313)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 3.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

5 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

366 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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