Radeon RX 460 vs GeForce 9600 GT
Summary
Reasons to consider Radeon RX 460 |
| 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 FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends Radeon RX 460
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| Radeon RX 460 | | GeForce 9600 GT | |
|---|
| GPU Name | Baffin (Baffin PRO) | vs | G94 (G94-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 123 mm² | vs | 240 mm² |
| Transistors | 3,000 million | vs | 505 million |
| Shaders | 896 | vs | 64 |
| Compute Units | 14 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 1090 MHz | vs | 650 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 56 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| Radeon RX 460 | | GeForce 9600 GT | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR3 |
| Bus Width | 128 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective | vs | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon RX 460 | | GeForce 9600 GT | |
|---|
| TDP | 75 watts | vs | 95 watts |
| Release Date | 29 Jun 2016 | vs | 21 Feb 2008 |
Radeon RX 460
19.20 GP/s
GeForce 9600 GT
10.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
67.20 GT/s
GeForce 9600 GT
20.80 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
112.00 GB/s
GeForce 9600 GT
57.60 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Radeon RX 460
2150.40 GFLOPs
GeForce 9600 GT
208.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better