Radeon Vega 3 Embedded vs GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	not rated	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	GCN 5.0 (2017−2020)
GPU code name	G94	Picasso-M
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	21 February 2008 (16 years ago)	2019 (5 years ago)
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 cores	64	192
Core clock speed	600 MHz	300 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1200 MHz
Number of transistors	505 million	4,940 million
Manufacturing process technology	65 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	10 Watt
Texture fill rate	19.20	14.40
Floating-point processing power	0.192 TFLOPS	0.4608 TFLOPS
ROPs	16	4
TMUs	32	12

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).

Interface	PCIe 2.0 x16	IGP
Length	229 mm	no data
Width	1-slot	IGP
Supplementary power connectors	1x 6-pin	None

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 type	GDDR3	System Shared
Maximum RAM amount	512 MB	System Shared
Memory bus width	256 Bit	System Shared
Memory clock speed	700 MHz	System Shared
Memory bandwidth	44.8 GB/s	no 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 Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Motherboard Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	4.0	6.7
OpenGL	3.3	4.6
OpenCL	1.1	2.1
Vulkan	N/A	1.3
CUDA	1.1	-

Pros & cons summary

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Chip lithography	65 nm	12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	95 Watt	10 Watt

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