NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 370X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 180W)
AMD Radeon R9 370X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1030MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1216 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 370X
+1273%
2.637 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
980 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1030 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1280
32
TMUs
80
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.96 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
82.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.637 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
164.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
180W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Trinidad
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Trinidad XT
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
212 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
