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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 380X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 380X 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 190W)
AMD Radeon R9 380X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 11 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (182.4GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 380X +1969%
3.973 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Dec 2008
Release Date
Nov 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1425 MHz

Memory

1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
182.4GB/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
512 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.04 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
124.2 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
3.973 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.973 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
248.3 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W
TDP
190W
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
Antigua
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Antigua XT (215-0877016)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
5 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
366 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
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