AMD Radeon R9 380 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD Radeon R9 380

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

Radeon R9 380

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

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

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