AMD Radeon HD 6290 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6290 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon HD 6290 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
16 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (19W vs 95W)
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 12.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 6290
0.104 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+84%
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2011
Release Date
Dec 2008
Northern Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
800 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
12.80GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
2
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
80
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
8 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
128 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
2.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
5.200 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
104.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
19W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cedar
GPU Name
G94
Cedar LE
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.292 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
59 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
3.3
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
5.0
Shader Model
4.0
