AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 390 X2

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 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 7 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

2496 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 580W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390 X2 +2566%

5.12 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390 X2

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2015

Release Date

Feb 2008

Pirate Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1350 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

345.6GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

40

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

2560

Shading Units

64

160

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

160.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

5.120 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

640.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

580W

TDP

95W

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 Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

G94

Grenada PRO (215-0880030)

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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