AMD Radeon Sky 700 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

AMD Radeon Sky 700

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM Radeon Sky 700 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 700 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 3 months late

More VRAM (6GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1728 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 225W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Sky 700 +1580%

3.226 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon Sky 700

VS

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

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

264.0GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

8

1792

Shading Units

64

112

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

28.80 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

100.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

3.226 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

806.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

225W

TDP

95W

550 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Tahiti

GPU Name

G94

Tahiti PRO GL

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.313 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

352 mm²

Die Size

240 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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