Radeon R5 M230 vs GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon R5 M230
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 7 Jan 2014
Radeon R5 M230
GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon R5 M230

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce 9600 GT

HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GT

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon R5 M230GeForce 9600 GT
GPU NameJet (Jet PRO)vsG94 (G94-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size77 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors1,040 millionvs505 million
Shaders320vs64
Compute Units5vs4
Core clock780 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs8vs16
TMUs20vs32

Memory Configuration

Radeon R5 M230GeForce 9600 GT
Memory TypeDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1000 MHz
2000 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size4096 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

Radeon R5 M230GeForce 9600 GT
TDP0 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date7 Jan 2014vs21 Feb 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon R5 M230
    6.84 GP/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon R5 M230
    17.10 GT/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon R5 M230
    16.00 GB/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon R5 M230
    547.20 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better