AMD Radeon R9 280X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 280X2 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

2000 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 280X2 +3313%

4.096 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Unknown

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

950 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

288.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

48

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

32.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

128.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

4.096 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 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

375W

TDP

Unknown

750 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

3x 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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