AMD Radeon RX 480 vs ATI Radeon 9600 SE

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon RX 480 and ATI Radeon 9600 SE 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: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

 

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon RX 480

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 12 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 3.4x more core clock speed: 1120 MHz vs 325 MHz
  • 140.2x more texture fill rate: 182.3 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 130 nm
  • 64x more maximum memory size: 4 GB vs 64 MB
  • 17.5x more memory clock speed: 7000 MHz vs 400 MHz
  • 317.7x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 8578 vs 27
  • 5.4x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 774 vs 143
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 29 June 2016 vs 1 October 2003
Core clock speed 1120 MHz vs 325 MHz
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s vs 1.3 GTexel / s
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 130 nm
Maximum memory size 4 GB vs 64 MB
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz vs 400 MHz
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 8578 vs 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 774 vs 143

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon RX 480
GPU 2: ATI Radeon 9600 SE

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
8578
27
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
774
143
Name AMD Radeon RX 480 ATI Radeon 9600 SE
PassMark - G3D Mark 8578 27
PassMark - G2D Mark 774 143
Geekbench - OpenCL 39538
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 103.851
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 769.541
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 7.593
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 67.879
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 597.772
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 11172
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 3719
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3361
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 966

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon RX 480 ATI Radeon 9600 SE

Essentials

Architecture GCN 4.0 Rage 8
Code name Ellesmere RV350
Design Radeon RX 400 Series
GCN generation 4th Gen
Launch date 29 June 2016 1 October 2003
Launch price (MSRP) $229
Place in performance rating 360 1176
Price now $299.99
Type Desktop Desktop
Value for money (0-100) 39.12

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1266 MHz
Compute units 36
Core clock speed 1120 MHz 325 MHz
Floating-point performance 5.8 TFLOPs
GPU Power 110 Watt
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 130 nm
Pipelines 2304
Stream Processors 2304
Texture fill rate 182.3 GTexel / s 1.3 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 150 Watt
Transistor count 5,700 million 76 million

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors 1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort 1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Bridgeless CrossFire
Bus support n / a
Interface PCIe 3.0 x16 AGP 8x
Length 241 mm
Recommended system power (PSU) 500 Watt
Supplementary power connectors 1x 6-pin None

API support

DirectX 12 9.0
Mantle
OpenCL 2.0
OpenGL 4.5 2.0
Vulkan

Memory

Maximum RAM amount 4 GB 64 MB
Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s 3.2 GB / s
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 Bit
Memory clock speed 7000 MHz 400 MHz
Memory type GDDR5 DDR
Shared memory 0

Technologies

4K H264 Decode
4K H264 Encode
AMD Eyefinity
AMD Radeon™ Chill
AMD Radeon™ ReLive
AppAcceleration
CrossFire
DisplayPort 1.3 HBR / 1.4 HDR Ready
Enduro
FreeSync
FRTC
H265/HEVC Decode
H265/HEVC Encode
HD3D
HDMI 2.0b
HDMI 4K Support
LiquidVR
PowerTune
TressFX
TrueAudio
Unified Video Decoder (UVD)
Video Code Engine (VCE)
Virtual Super Resolution (VSR)
VR Ready
ZeroCore