AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Comparative analysis of AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, 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.

AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Differences

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient

Videocard is newer: launch date 9 year(s) 4 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 65 nm
2.7x lower typical power consumption: 35 Watt vs 95 Watt

Launch date	23 April 2018 vs 22 December 2008
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt vs 95 Watt

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

2x more core clock speed: 600 MHz vs 300 MHz

Core clock speed	600 MHz vs 300 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Name	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
PassMark - G3D Mark	1894
PassMark - G2D Mark	355
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)	26.039
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)	176.928
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)	1.666
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)	27.603
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)	135.437
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)	2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)	3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)	3352
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)	2408
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)	3170
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)	3352
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	862

Compare specifications (specs)

	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Efficient	NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Essentials
Architecture	GCN 5.0	Tesla
Code name	Raven	G94
Launch date	23 April 2018	22 December 2008
Place in performance rating	931	not rated
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1100 MHz
Core clock speed	300 MHz	600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	65 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	35 Watt	95 Watt
Transistor count	4,940 million	505 million
Floating-point performance		192 gflops
Pipelines		64
Texture fill rate		19.2 GTexel / s
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	No outputs	2x DVI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	IGP	PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Length		229 mm
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	10.0
OpenGL	4.6	3.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount		1 GB
Memory bandwidth		17.02 GB / s
Memory bus width		256 Bit
Memory clock speed		532 MHz
Memory type		DDR2