Radeon HD 7970 X2 vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon HD 7970 X2 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon HD 7970 X2
+1721%
3789
GeForce 9600 GT
208
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Feb 2008
Southern Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1375 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
264.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
2048
Shading Units
64
128
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
29.60 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
118.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
3.789 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
947.2 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
95W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
3x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
New Zealand
GPU Name
G94
-
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
