GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon R5 220 OEM

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R5 220 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R5 220 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 220 OEM

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 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R5 220 OEM
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsCedar (Cedar PRO)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs59 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs292 million
Shaders64vs80
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R5 220 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs533 MHz
1066 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R5 220 OEM
TDP95 wattsvs19 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    2.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    5.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    8.53 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R5 220 OEM
    104.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better