AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 270X NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1050MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +1300%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Dec 2008

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

-

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

20

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

G94

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

180W

TDP

95W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI

2x 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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