AMD Radeon R7 250X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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AMD Radeon R7 250X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R7 250X 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (72.00GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

592 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (80W vs 90W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R7 250X +679%

1.216 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

Radeon R7 250X

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GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Feb 2014

Release Date

Oct 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1125 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

72.00GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

10

Compute Units

-

640

Shading Units

48

40

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

15.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

38.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1216 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

76.00 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Cape Verde

GPU Name

G94

Cape Verde XT

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.5 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

123 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

80W

TDP

90W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 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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