AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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AMD Radeon R9 280X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 5 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X +1373%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X

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GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2009

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

700 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

48

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

9.280 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

1024 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

140W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

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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