GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory: 2048Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Nov 2013
Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Summary

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

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 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

HWBench recommends Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsOland ()
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs90 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,040 million
Shaders64vs320
Compute Units4vs5
Core clock650 MHzvs730 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs32vs20

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
TDP95 wattsvs50 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs1 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    5.84 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    14.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 240 (HD 8570 rebrand)
    467.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better