NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8740 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8740 OEM 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 7 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

448 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM +293%

0.819 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Sep 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

512

32

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

12.80 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

25.60 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

819.2 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

51.20 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

55W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

123 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

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