NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 6 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

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

576 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +484%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic 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

10

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

640

32

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

80W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Cape Verde

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

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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