NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 250X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 2 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (80W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250X
+533%
1.216 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Feb 2014
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
10
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
640
32
TMUs
40
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
15.20 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.00 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1216 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
76.00 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
80W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde XT
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
