GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon R7 350 OEM

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R7 350 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 350 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 350 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R7 350 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 350 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R7 350 OEM
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsOland (Oland XT)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders64vs384
Compute Units4vs6
Core clock650 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R7 350 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R7 350 OEM
TDP95 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    8.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    24.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 350 OEM
    768.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better