AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock925MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270 1024SP +810%

1.894 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270 1024SP

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2015

Release Date

Feb 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

925 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

16

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

59.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.894 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

118.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94

Pitcairn PRO (215-0828062)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

95W

450 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 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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