NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 6290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

AMD Radeon HD 6290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)

AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

16 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition +84%

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6290

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

VS

Radeon HD 6290

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Dec 2011

GeForce 9

Generation

Northern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

12.80GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

80

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

95W

TDP

19W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Cedar

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cedar LE

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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