GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon R9 295X2
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT |
| 405 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 295X2 . |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 R9 295X2 |
| 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 FreeSync |
| Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Supports TrueAudio |
| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends Radeon R9 295X2
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GT | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G94 (G94-300-A1) | vs | Vesuvius (Vesuvius XT) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 240 mm² | vs | 438 mm² |
| Transistors | 505 million | vs | 6,200 million |
| Shaders | 64 | vs | 2816 |
| Compute Units | 4 | vs | 44 |
| Core clock | 650 MHz | vs | 1018 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 64 |
| TMUs | 32 | vs | 176 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GT | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 256 bit | vs | 512 bit x2 |
| Memory Speed | 900 MHz
1800 MHz effective | vs | 1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 512 Mb | vs | 4096 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9600 GT | | Radeon R9 295X2 | |
|---|
| TDP | 95 watts | vs | 500 watts |
| Release Date | 21 Feb 2008 | vs | 29 Apr 2014 |
GeForce 9600 GT
10.40 GP/s
Radeon R9 295X2
130.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GT
20.80 GT/s
Radeon R9 295X2
358.40 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GT
57.60 GB/s
Radeon R9 295X2
640.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GT
208.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R9 295X2
11466.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better