GeForce 9600 GTX and Radeon RX 580G - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
Radeon RX 580G
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 4.0 (2016−2020)
GPU code name
G92
Polaris 20
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2009
October 2018
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
-
1330 MHz
Core clock speed
580 MHz
1257 MHz
Floating-point performance
278.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
5,700 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
2304
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
185 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
191.5
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
8 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
8000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.8 GB/s
256.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.4
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131