Radeon R7 250E vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250E 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
Radeon R7 250E 's Advantages
Released 5 years late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
448 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (55W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R7 250E
+326%
819
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
192
Graphics Card
Dec 2013
Release Date
Dec 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1125 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
72.00GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
8
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
512
Shading Units
64
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
256 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
12.80 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
25.60 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
819.2 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
51.20 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
55W
TDP
95W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Cape Verde
GPU Name
G94
Cape Verde PRO
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
1.5 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
123 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