AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (3GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 500W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7970 X2 +1335%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7970 X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Aug 2012

Release Date

Apr 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

118.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

3.789 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

947.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

500W

TDP

84W

900 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

3x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

New Zealand

GPU Name

G92

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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