NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +3322%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1469 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1545 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

2304

32

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

49.44 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

175W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

Polaris 30

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

12 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

2.1

N/A

Vulkan

1.2

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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