GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon R5 230

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2008
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Radeon R5 230
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Apr 2014
Radeon R5 230
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R5 230

76 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GT Mac EditionRadeon R5 230
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsCaicos (Caicos PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs67 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs370 million
Shaders64vs160
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock600 MHzvs625 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GT Mac EditionRadeon R5 230
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed266 MHz
532 MHz effective
vs667 MHz
1334 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GT Mac EditionRadeon R5 230
TDP95 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date22 Dec 2008vs3 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    2.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    19.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    5.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    17.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 230
    10.67 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    192.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 230
    200.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better