AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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AMD Radeon R9 390X

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390X 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 390X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (384.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

2720 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 390X +2027%

5.914 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 390X

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

-

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

384.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

2816

Shading Units

96

176

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

67.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

184.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

5.914 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

739.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

275W

TDP

140W

600 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Grenada

GPU Name

G92

Grenada XT (215-0880004)

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

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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