AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 5 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

2464 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 X2 +1839%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2

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GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Apr 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

192bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

96

160

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

G92

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

580W

TDP

84W

950 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

4x 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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