NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 7470 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 1 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (27W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7470 OEM +25%

0.24 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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Radeon HD 7470 OEM

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

266 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

2

64

Shading Units

160

32

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

3.000 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

6.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

240.0 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Caicos

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Khalidster

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

67 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

27W

250 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI

Outputs

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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