NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R7 260X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 115W)
AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
832 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 260X
+926%
1.971 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Oct 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
1625 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
14
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
896
32
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
115W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Bonaire
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX
(215-0839097)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
