AMD Radeon R7 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R7 260 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260 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 R7 260 's Advantages

Released 5 years late

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260 +700%

1.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

12

Compute Units

-

768

Shading Units

64

48

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

48.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.536 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

96.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G94

Bonaire PRO

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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