GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon R9 295X2

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R9 295X2
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Apr 2014
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 295X2

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 295X2

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R9 295X2
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsVesuvius (Vesuvius XT)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders64vs2816
Compute Units4vs44
Core clock650 MHzvs1018 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs32vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R9 295X2
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs512 bit x2
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTRadeon R9 295X2
TDP95 wattsvs500 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs29 Apr 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    130.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    358.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    640.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 295X2
    11466.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better