AMD Radeon R7 Graphics vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon R7 Graphics and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps), 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R7 Graphics

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 7 month(s) later
  • Around 6% higher texture fill rate: 16.46 GTexel / s vs 15.6 billion / sec
  • 8x more pipelines: 384 vs 48
  • 3.4x better floating-point performance: 526.8 gflops vs 156 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 28 nm vs 65 nm
  • 6x lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 90 Watt
  • Around 50% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3358 vs 2239
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 31 May 2016 vs 23 October 2008
Texture fill rate 16.46 GTexel / s vs 15.6 billion / sec
Pipelines 384 vs 48
Floating-point performance 526.8 gflops vs 156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 90 Watt
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 vs 2239

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

  • 8.1x more core clock speed: 1625 MHz vs 200 MHz
  • 37.3x better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 2239 vs 60
Specifications (specs)
Core clock speed 1625 MHz vs 200 MHz
Benchmarks
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 2239 vs 60

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon R7 Graphics
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3358
2239
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
60
2239
Name AMD Radeon R7 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Geekbench - OpenCL 22612
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 15.145
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 206.354
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 1.2
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 24.15
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 85.46
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1979
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2101
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3358 2239
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 33.5
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 33.9
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 60 2239
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 1457
PassMark - G3D Mark 330
PassMark - G2D Mark 79

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon R7 Graphics NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Essentials

Architecture GCN 3.0 Tesla
Code name Wani G94
Launch date 31 May 2016 23 October 2008
Place in performance rating 1440 1438
Type Desktop Desktop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 758 MHz
Core clock speed 200 MHz 1625 MHz
Floating-point performance 526.8 gflops 156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 28 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 384 48
Texture fill rate 16.46 GTexel / s 15.6 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 90 Watt
Transistor count 2,410 million 505 million
CUDA cores 48
Maximum GPU temperature 105 °C

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs 2x DVI, 1x S-Video, Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
Audio input for HDMI S / PDIF
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution 2048x1536
Multi monitor support

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP PCIe 2.0 x16
Height 4.376" (11.1 cm)
Length 9" (22.9 cm)
SLI options 2-way
Supplementary power connectors 6-pin

API support

DirectX 12.0 (12_0) 10.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.1

Memory

Memory type System Shared GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 57.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 Bit
Memory clock speed 900 MHz

Technologies

CUDA