NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 500W)
AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 3 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1952 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 7970 X2
+1262%
3.789 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2009
Release Date
Aug 2012
GeForce 9
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
3GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
44.80GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
2048
48
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.280 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
27.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
118.4 GTexel/s
-
-
-
278.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
3.789 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
947.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
500W
300 W
Suggested PSU
900 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
New Zealand
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-
-
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
324 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
