NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs 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 1024GB)
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
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
-
Compute Units
32
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
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 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
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
