AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 380 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 380 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1696 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 190W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 380
+1150%
3.476 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jun 2015
Release Date
May 2009
Pirate Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
176.0GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1792
Shading Units
96
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
31.04 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
108.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
3.476 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
3.476 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
217.3 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
190W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Antigua
GPU Name
G92
Antigua PRO
(215-0877000)
GPU Variant
-
GCN 3.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
5 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
366 mm²
Die Size
324 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
