AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 700

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon Sky 700 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1696 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 700 +1121%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Mar 2013

Release Date

Apr 2008

Radeon Sky

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

192bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

12

1792

Shading Units

96

112

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

84W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G92

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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