AMD Radeon R9 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280 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 280 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock933MHz
More VRAM (3GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1728 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280
+1641%
3.344 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2014
Release Date
Dec 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
827 MHz
Base Clock
-
933 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
384bit
Memory Bus
256bit
240.0GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
28
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
1792
Shading Units
64
112
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
29.86 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
104.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
3.344 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
836.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
200W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
2x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
G94
Tahiti PRO3
(215-0821330)
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
352 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
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
