NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 280X2

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition AMD Radeon R9 280X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 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 375W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2 +2033%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

Radeon R9 280X2

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

950 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

266 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

64

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Tahiti

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

375W

250 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI

Outputs

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

3x 8-pin

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

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