AMD Radeon R9 290X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD Radeon R9 290X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 290X2 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

2768 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X2 +4593%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2816

Shading Units

48

176

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

Unknown

950 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

4x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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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