AMD Radeon Sky 500 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon Sky 500 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon Sky 500 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 500 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (4GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 500 +1166%

2.432 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 500

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GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1200 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

153.6GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

30.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

76.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.432 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

152.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Pitcairn

GPU Name

G94

Pitcairn XT GL (215-0828073)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

150W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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