NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon R9 285X
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 285X 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
Lower TDP (95W vs 200W)
AMD Radeon R9 285X 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 285X
+2037%
4.104 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 9
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
384bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
264.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
2048
32
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.06 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.3 GTexel/s
-
-
-
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.104 TFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
200W
250 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
2x DVI
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Tonga
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Tonga XT
(215-0851313)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 3.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
5 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
366 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.3
