AMD Radeon RX 580X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

VS

AMD Radeon RX 580X

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580X 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 RX 580X 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

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

2240 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580X +3116%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580X

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Graphics Card

Apr 2018

Release Date

Feb 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

700 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

2304

Shading Units

64

144

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

185W

TDP

95W

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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