Radeon RX Vega 7 vs GeForce 9600 GS OEM

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated529
Place by popularitynot in top-10012
Power efficiencyno data36.20
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Vega (2017−2020)
GPU code nameG94Vega Raven Ridge
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)7 January 2020 (4 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores48448
Core clock speed500 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1800 MHz
Number of transistors505 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data15 Watt
Texture fill rate12.00no data
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPSno data
ROPs12no data
TMUs24no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16no data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeDDR2no data
Maximum RAM amount768 MBno data
Memory bus width192 Bitno data
Memory clock speed1000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth48 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno data+

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Videono data

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12_1
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.3no data
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 7 January 2020
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm

RX Vega 7 has an age advantage of 11 years, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600 GS OEM and Radeon RX Vega 7. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9600 GS OEM is a desktop card while Radeon RX Vega 7 is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
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