NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs AMD Radeon R9 390 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 8GB VRAM Radeon R9 390 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 390 X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 4 months late
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
2464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 390 X2
+1741%
5.12 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2009
Release Date
Sep 2015
GeForce 9
Generation
Pirate Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
700 MHz
Memory Clock
1350 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
512bit
44.80GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
40
12
SM Count
-
96
Shading Units
2560
48
TMUs
160
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
64 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
9.280 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
27.84 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
160.0 GTexel/s
-
-
-
278.4 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.120 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
640.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
580W
300 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G92
GPU Name
Grenada
-
GPU Variant
Grenada PRO
(215-0880030)
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.754 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
324 mm²
Die Size
438 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
