NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon RX 580G

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

AMD Radeon RX 580G

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580G 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 185W)

AMD Radeon RX 580G 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1330MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580G +2104%

6.129 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

Radeon RX 580G

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Oct 2018

GeForce 9

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1257 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1330 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

36

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

2304

48

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

42.56 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

191.5 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

6.129 TFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.129 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

383.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

185W

300 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

G92

GPU Name

Polaris 20

-

GPU Variant

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

Tesla

Architecture

GCN 4.0

TSMC

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

65 nm

Process Size

14 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

324 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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