Radeon E8950 and GeForce 9600 GSO 512 - video card comparison
Radeon E8950
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Architecture
GCN 3.0 (2014−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Amethyst
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
September 2015
October 2008
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
6-pin
SLI options
-
2-way
Boost clock speed
1000 MHz
-
Core clock speed
735 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
48
Floating-point performance
4,096 gflops
156 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
5,000 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2048
48
Power consumption (TDP)
95 Watt
90 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
128.0
15.6 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
192.0 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
-
+
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
Shader Model
6.3
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A