NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon R5 230

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD Radeon R5 230

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 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 10.67GB/s)

AMD Radeon R5 230 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (19W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX +39%

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon R5 230

0.2 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon R5 230

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Apr 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

667 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

10.67GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

2

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

160

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

2.500 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

5.000 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

200.0 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

Caicos

-

GPU Variant

Caicos PRO

Tesla

Architecture

TeraScale 2

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

0.37 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

67 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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