AMD Radeon R7 240 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD Radeon R7 240

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 240 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 240 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock780MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

224 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (44.80GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 240 +79%

0.499 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 240

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2009

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

730 MHz

Base Clock

-

780 MHz

Boost Clock

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

5

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

320

Shading Units

96

20

TMUs

48

8

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

6.240 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

499.2 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

140W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x VGA

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Oland

GPU Name

G92

Oland PRO (215-0837015)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.95 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

77 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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