AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

AMD Radeon R7 260X

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 6 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

800 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 115W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 260X +646%

1.971 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 260X

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Apr 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1625 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

104.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

14

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

896

Shading Units

96

56

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

17.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

61.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

1.971 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

123.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

115W

TDP

84W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Bonaire

GPU Name

G92

Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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