AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 and 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon RX 580 's Advantages

Released 8 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1340MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)

2256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +5045%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GS OEM

0.12 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 580

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GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Jul 2008

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

-

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1000 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

768MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

48.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

6

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

48

144

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.000 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

12.00 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

120.0 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

G94

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Tesla

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

185W

TDP

Unknown

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x VGA 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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