Radeon R9 M290X and GeForce 9600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score Radeon R9 M290X vs GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R9 M290X
3360
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon R9 M290X
GeForce 9600 GT
Architecture
GCN (2011−2017)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Neptune
G94
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2014
February 2008
Bus support
PCIe 3.0 x16
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
6-pin
SLI options
-
+
Boost clock speed
900 MHz
-
Compute units
20
-
Core clock speed
850 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
-
64
Floating-point performance
2,304 gflops
208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,800 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1280
64
Power consumption (TDP)
100 Watt
96 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
72.00
20.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1200 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
153.6 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
-
+
Eyefinity
1
-
Maximum VGA resolution
-
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
-
S/PDIF
DirectX
DirectX® 11
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
+
Mantle
+
-
OpenCL
Not Listed
1.1
OpenGL
4.4
2.1
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
-
N/A
AppAcceleration
-
-
DualGraphics
1
-
Enduro
-
-
FreeSync
1
-
HD3D
+
-
PowerTune
+
-
Switchable graphics
1
-
TrueAudio
-
-
ZeroCore
+
-