AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon HD 8490 OEM 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 8490 OEM 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 7 months late

96 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8490 OEM +45%

0.28 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8490 OEM

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Jul 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR3

Memory Type

DDR2

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

14.40GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

2

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

160

Shading Units

64

8

TMUs

32

4

ROPs

16

-

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

128 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

3.500 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

7.000 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

280.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

35W

TDP

95W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

2x DVI

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Caicos

GPU Name

G94

Caicos XTX

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.37 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

67 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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