GeForce 9600 GTX and Radeon RX 590 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GTX

Radeon RX 590

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Polaris (2016−2019)

GPU code name

G92

Polaris 30

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2009

November 2018

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

-

1545 MHz

Core clock speed

580 MHz

1469 MHz

Floating-point performance

278.4 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

12 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

5,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

2304

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

175 Watt

Texture fill rate

27.84

222.5

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

Shared memory

-

-

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

FreeSync

-

+