GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs Radeon R9 255 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 768MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GS OEM and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 255 OEM Advantages
Released 5 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock930MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 768GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 48.00GB/s)
464 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
120
Radeon R9 255 OEM
+693%
952
Graphics Card
Jul 2008
Release Date
Dec 2013
GeForce 9
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
900 MHz
-
Boost Clock
930 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
768MB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR2
Memory Type
GDDR5
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
48.00GB/s
Bandwidth
73.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
6
SM Count
-
48
Shading Units
512
24
TMUs
32
12
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
48 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
6.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
14.88 GPixel/s
12.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
29.76 GTexel/s
120.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
952.3 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
59.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
65W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x VGA
1x S-Video
1x VGA
1x S-Video
Outputs
No outputs
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
Cape Verde
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRX
Tesla
Architecture
GCN 1.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
N/A
Vulkan
1.2
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
