AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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AMD Radeon R9 290X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X 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 290X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2752 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +2607%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Feb 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

64

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

G94

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

290W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 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 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.3

Shader Model

4.0

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