AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

AMD Radeon RX 6950 XT

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon RX 6950 XT 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 6950 XT 's Advantages

Released 13 years late

Boost Clock2310MHz

More VRAM (16GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (576.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

5024 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 335W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 6950 XT +8407%

23.65 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 6950 XT

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

May 2022

Release Date

May 2009

Navi II

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1860 MHz

Base Clock

-

2310 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2250 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

576.0GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

80

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

5120

Shading Units

96

320

TMUs

48

128

ROPs

16

-

80

RT Cores

-

128 KB per Array

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

128 MB

L3 Cache

-

Theoretical Performance

295.7 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

739.2 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

47.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

23.65 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

1478 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

335W

TDP

140W

700 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.1 2x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Navi 21

GPU Name

G92

Navi 21 KXTX (215-121000289)

GPU Variant

-

RDNA 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

7 nm

Process Size

65 nm

26.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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