NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon R7 265
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 265 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
AMD Radeon R7 265 's Advantages
Released 6 years late
Boost Clock925MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 265
+810%
1.894 TFLOPS
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
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
925 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
1400 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
179.2GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
1024
32
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
59.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.894 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
150W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Pitcairn
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
212 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
