AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 8860 OEM and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon HD 8860 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 175W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon HD 8860 OEM +751%

2.368 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8860 OEM

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jan 2013

Release Date

May 2009

Sea Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

29.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

74.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.368 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

148.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G92

Curacao PRO (215-0848000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

175W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.2

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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