AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 R9 280X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1984 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +2033%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 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

850 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

64

128

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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