AMD Radeon R9 295X2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 295X2 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
AMD Radeon R9 295X2 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 2 months late
More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2752 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 500W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 295X2
+2656%
5.733 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Apr 2014
Release Date
Feb 2008
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
512bit
Memory Bus
256bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
8
2816
Shading Units
64
176
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
65.15 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
179.2 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
-
-
-
5.733 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
716.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
500W
TDP
95W
900 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
4x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Vesuvius
GPU Name
G94
Vesuvius XT
(215-0852022)
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
2.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
6.3
Shader Model
4.0
