NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 185W)
AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock1340MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
2240 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 580
+3116%
6.175 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 9
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1257 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2304
32
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
185W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Polaris 20
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
