NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon Sky 900
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon Sky 900 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 300W)
AMD Radeon Sky 900 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock950MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon Sky 900
+1673%
3.405 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Mar 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
Radeon Sky
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
825 MHz
-
Boost Clock
950 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
240.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
28
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1792
32
TMUs
112
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
30.40 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
106.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.405 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
851.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
300W
250 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Tahiti
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Orthrus
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
