NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon R9 280

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon R9 280

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 200W)

AMD Radeon R9 280 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock933MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280 +1507%

3.344 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon R9 280

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Mar 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

827 MHz

-

Boost Clock

933 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

57.60GB/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

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.86 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

104.5 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.344 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

836.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

200W

250 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Tahiti

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO3 (215-0821330)

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

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