GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs Radeon R7 340 OEM

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Memory: 1024Mb DDR2DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Dec 2008
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Radeon R7 340 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R7 340 OEM
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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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 340 OEM

45 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.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 340 OEM

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 340 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GT Mac EditionRadeon R7 340 OEM
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders64vs384
Compute Units4vs6
Core clock600 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GT Mac EditionRadeon R7 340 OEM
Memory TypeDDR2vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed266 MHz
532 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size1024 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GT Mac EditionRadeon R7 340 OEM
TDP95 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date22 Dec 2008vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    9.60 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    19.20 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    17.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    17.00 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
    192.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 340 OEM
    560.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better