NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon R7 250X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD Radeon R7 250X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 9 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

544 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X +337%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon R7 250X

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Feb 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1125 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

72.00GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

10

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

640

48

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

15.20 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.00 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1216 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

76.00 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

80W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

Cape Verde

-

GPU Variant

Cape Verde XT

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.5 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

123 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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