AMD Radeon HD 7990 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

AMD Radeon HD 7990

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7990 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 7990 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 7990 +2525%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7990

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2013

Release Date

Oct 2008

Southern Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

32

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

375W

TDP

90W

750 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Malta

GPU Name

G94

Malta XT (215-0849026)

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

365 mm²

Die Size

240 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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