NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon 540
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon 540 's Advantages
Released 8 years and 4 months late
Larger VRAM bandwidth (24.00GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
320 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (50W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
AMD Radeon 540
+372%
0.908 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 9
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x8
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
32bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
24.00GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
6
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
384
32
TMUs
24
16
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
18.93 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
28.39 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
908.5 GFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
908.5 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
56.78 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
50W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Lexa
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Lexa PRO
(215-0904018)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
2.2 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
103 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.7
