AMD Radeon HD 6530 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon HD 6530

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 6530 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 6530 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (19.20GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

336 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (39W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 6530 +170%

0.52 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6530

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

May 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

-

600 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

19.20GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

400

Shading Units

64

20

TMUs

32

8

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

5.200 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

13.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

520.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

39W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI

-

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Redwood

GPU Name

G94

Redwood PRO (215-0757004)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.627 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

104 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

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