AMD Radeon RX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 480 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 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 RX 480 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1266MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

2208 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 480 +1998%

5.834 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2016

Release Date

May 2009

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1120 MHz

Base Clock

-

1266 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

96

144

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

40.51 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

182.3 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

5.834 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.834 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

364.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

G92

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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