AMD Radeon HD 7950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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AMD Radeon HD 7950 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 200W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7950 +1278%

2.867 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950

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GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Jan 2012

Release Date

Feb 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

240.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

28

Compute Units

-

1792

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

25.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

89.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.867 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

716.8 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

200W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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