GeForce 9600 GSO vs Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO |
| 116 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
| PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor |
Reasons to consider Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports Mantle |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GSO | | Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G92 () | vs | Tahiti (Tahiti PRO) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 324 mm² | vs | 352 mm² |
| Transistors | 754 million | vs | 4,313 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 1792 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 28 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 800 MHz |
| ROPs | 12 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 112 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GSO | | Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 384 Mb | vs | 3072 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9600 GSO | | Radeon HD 7950 Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 84 watts | vs | 200 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Apr 2008 | vs | 7 Mar 2013 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better