Radeon RX 580 and GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition - video card comparison
Radeon RX 580
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
Architecture
Polaris (2016−2019)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
Polaris 20
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2017
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 8-pin
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1340 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1257 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
6,175 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
5,700 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2304
64
Power consumption (TDP)
185 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
193.0
19.20
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
8 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
8000 MHz
1400 MBps
Memory bandwidth
256.0 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
2.0
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.2.131
N/A