Radeon R5 230 and GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
Radeon R5 230
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Architecture
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Caicos
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2014
December 2008
Bus support
PCIe 1.0 x4
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
N/A
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
-
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
200.0 gflops
192 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
370 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
160
64
Power consumption (TDP)
19 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
5.000
19.20
Memory type
DDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
-
532 MHz
Memory bandwidth
10.67 GB/s
17.02 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
2x DVI
Eyefinity
1
-
HDMI
+
-
DisplayPort support
-
-
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
Mantle
-
-
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
3.3
Shader Model
5.0
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
CrossFire
1
-
DDMA audio
-
-
Enduro
-
-
HD3D
-
-
PowerPlay
+
-
PowerTune
-
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
-
-