AMD Radeon R9 370X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 370X 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 R9 370X 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1030MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 370X
+848%
2.637 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
May 2009
Pirate Islands
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
-
1030 MHz
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
24
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
12
1280
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.96 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
82.40 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.637 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
164.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
180W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
Trinidad
GPU Name
G92
Trinidad XT
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
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
