NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs AMD Radeon RX 470
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 120W)
AMD Radeon RX 470 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock1206MHz
More VRAM (4GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1984 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 470
+2472%
4.94 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Dec 2008
Release Date
Aug 2016
GeForce 9
Generation
Arctic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
926 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1206 MHz
266 MHz
Memory Clock
1650 MHz
Memory
1024MB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
17.02GB/s
Bandwidth
211.2GB/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
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.600 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.59 GPixel/s
19.20 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
154.4 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
4.940 TFLOPS
192.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.940 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
308.7 GFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
120W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Ellesmere
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
65 nm
Process Size
14 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
2.1
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.4
