NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon R7 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260 +638%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon R7 260

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Dec 2013

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

12

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

768

32

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.00 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

48.00 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.536 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

96.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

95W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Bonaire

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Bonaire PRO

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.08 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

160 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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