AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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AMD Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 16GB VRAM Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 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 Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1600MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (483.8GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

4000 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 375W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled +4615%

13.11 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition Watercooled

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GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jul 2017

Release Date

May 2009

Radeon Pro

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1382 MHz

Base Clock

-

1600 MHz

Boost Clock

-

945 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

16GB

Memory Size

512MB

HBM2

Memory Type

GDDR3

2048bit

Memory Bus

256bit

483.8GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

64

Compute Units

-

4096

Shading Units

96

256

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

4 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

102.4 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

409.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

26.21 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

13.11 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

819.2 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

G92

Vega 10 XTX LCS

GPU Variant

-

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

375W

TDP

140W

750 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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