AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

VS

AMD Radeon RX 590

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 10 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1545MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 768GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 590 +5832%

7.119 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590

VS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Nov 2018

Release Date

Jul 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1469 MHz

Base Clock

-

1545 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

36

Compute Units

-

SM Count

6

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

49.44 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

222.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

7.119 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

7.119 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

445.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

175W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Polaris 30

GPU Name

G94

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

12 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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