AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 285 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 2 months late

More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

1744 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +2641%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jul 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

1792

Shading Units

48

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

190W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tonga

GPU Name

G94

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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