NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 310 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 14.40GB/s)
AMD Radeon R5 310 OEM 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
96 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (35W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R5 310 OEM
+45%
0.28 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
May 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR2
Memory Type
DDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
14.40GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
160
32
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.500 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
7.000 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
280.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
35W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Caicos
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos XT
(215-0804070)
Tesla
Architecture
TeraScale 2
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.4
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.0
