AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +3858%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Oct 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

90W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G94

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

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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