AMD Radeon R7 250 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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AMD Radeon R7 250

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 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 R7 250 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

464 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (55W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250 +359%

0.717 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Oct 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

DDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

28.80GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

8

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

512

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

11.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

22.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

716.8 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

44.80 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

55W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G94

Cape Verde PRO

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

123 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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