NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs AMD Radeon R9 370X

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 AMD Radeon R9 370X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1030MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1232 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 370X +1590%

2.637 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

Radeon R9 370X

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 9

Generation

Pirate Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1030 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

6

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

48

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.96 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.637 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

164.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Trinidad

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Trinidad XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

212 mm²

Board Design

90W

TDP

180W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

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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