Radeon R9 290 and GeForce 9600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 290 vs GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R9 290
8336
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon R9 290
GeForce 9600 GT
Architecture
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Hawaii
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2013
February 2008
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Core clock speed
947 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
64
Floating-point performance
4,849 gflops
208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
6,200 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2560
64
Power consumption (TDP)
275 Watt
96 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
151.5
20.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
5000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
320.0 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
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