NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs ATI Radeon HD 5490

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

ATI Radeon HD 5490

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 5490 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 8.000GB/s)

16 additional rendering cores

ATI Radeon HD 5490 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 5 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Lower TDP (19W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +167%

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 5490

0.104 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon HD 5490

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Oct 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

Evergreen

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

8.000GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

80

48

TMUs

8

16

ROPs

4

-

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

128 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.600 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.200 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

104.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

19W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cedar

-

GPU Variant

Cedar XTX

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.292 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

59 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.4

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

-

4.0

Shader Model

5.0

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