GeForce 9600 GSO vs Radeon R5 235 OEM

GeForce 9600 GSO
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO
Radeon R5 235 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 235 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 235 OEM

49 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GSO .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce 9600 GSO

HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GSO

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSORadeon R5 235 OEM
GPU NameG92 ()vsCaicos (Caicos XT)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs370 million
Shaders96vs160
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs775 MHz
ROPs12vs4
TMUs48vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSORadeon R5 235 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size384 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSORadeon R5 235 OEM
TDP84 wattsvs35 watts
Release Date28 Apr 2008vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    6.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 235 OEM
    3.10 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    26.40 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 235 OEM
    6.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    38.40 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 235 OEM
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    264.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 235 OEM
    248.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better