Radeon RX 5900 vs GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameG94Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 February 2008 (16 years ago)no data
Launch price (MSRP)$179 no data

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 cores644096
Core clock speed600 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1635 MHz
Number of transistors505 million21,000 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt300 Watt
Texture fill rate19.20418.6
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS13.39 TFLOPS
ROPs1696
TMUs32256

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Length229 mmno data
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin2x 8-pin

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 typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB12 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit384 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz14000 MHz
Memory bandwidth44.8 GB/s672.0 GB/s

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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_1)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 12 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 300 Watt

9600 GT Green Edition has 215.8% lower power consumption.

RX 5900, on the other hand, has a 2300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 828.6% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition and Radeon RX 5900. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
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