AMD Radeon Vega 3 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 3 and NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, Memory, API support, 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 Vega 3

  • Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 8 month(s) later
  • 2.5x more core clock speed: 300 MHz vs 120 MHz
  • Around 50% higher texture fill rate: 12 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
  • 6x more pipelines: 192 vs 32
  • 4.8x better floating-point performance: 384.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
  • A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
  • Around 53% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
  • 5.9x better performance in PassMark - G3D Mark: 889 vs 150
  • 11.2x better performance in PassMark - G2D Mark: 303 vs 27
  • Around 85% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames): 2111 vs 1140
  • Around 89% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames): 3174 vs 1679
  • Around 85% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps): 2111 vs 1140
  • Around 89% better performance in GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps): 3174 vs 1679
Specifications (specs)
Launch date 13 February 2018 vs 4 June 2008
Core clock speed 300 MHz vs 120 MHz
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s vs 8 GTexel / s
Pipelines 192 vs 32
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops vs 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt vs 23 Watt
Benchmarks
PassMark - G3D Mark 889 vs 150
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 vs 27
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2111 vs 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3174 vs 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2111 vs 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3174 vs 1679

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 3
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

PassMark - G3D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
889
150
PassMark - G2D Mark
GPU 1
GPU 2
303
27
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2111
1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3174
1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
2111
1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)
GPU 1
GPU 2
3174
1679
Name AMD Radeon Vega 3 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
PassMark - G3D Mark 889 150
PassMark - G2D Mark 303 27
Geekbench - OpenCL 3963
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s) 10.049
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s) 183.156
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s) 0.75
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s) 18.933
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s) 60.006
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames) 1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames) 2111 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames) 3174 1679
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps) 1412
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps) 2111 1140
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps) 3174 1679
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score 418

Compare specifications (specs)

AMD Radeon Vega 3 NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT

Essentials

Architecture GCN 5.0 Tesla
Code name Owl G96
Launch date 13 February 2018 4 June 2008
Place in performance rating 1267 1530
Type Desktop Laptop

Technical info

Boost clock speed 1000 MHz
Core clock speed 300 MHz 120 MHz
Floating-point performance 384.0 gflops 80 gflops
Manufacturing process technology 14 nm 65 nm
Pipelines 192 32
Texture fill rate 12 GTexel / s 8 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP) 15 Watt 23 Watt
Transistor count 4,940 million 314 million
CUDA cores 32

Video outputs and ports

Display Connectors No outputs No outputs

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Interface IGP MXM-II
Supplementary power connectors None None
Laptop size medium sized

Memory

Memory type System Shared GDDR2, GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB
Memory bandwidth 25.6 GB / s
Memory bus width 128 Bit
Memory clock speed 1600 MHz
Shared memory 0

API support

DirectX 10.0
OpenGL 3.3

Technologies

CUDA
PCI-E 2.0