GeForce 9600 GTX and Radeon R7 M520 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
Radeon R7 M520
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G92
Oland
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2009
April 2017
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
580 MHz
1030 MHz
Floating-point performance
278.4 gflops
659.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
50 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
20.60
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.8 GB/s
16 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12.0
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
-