NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 250E
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (55W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250E
+326%
0.819 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1125 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
72.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
512
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
12.80 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
819.2 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
51.20 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
55W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
123 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
