Arc A380 vs GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated334
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluationno data44.00
Power efficiencyno data14.72
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)Generation 12.7 (2022−2023)
GPU code nameG94DG2-128
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date21 February 2008 (16 years ago)14 June 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 $149

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores641024
Core clock speed600 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2050 MHz
Number of transistors505 million7,200 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)95 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate19.20131.2
Floating-point processing power0.192 TFLOPS4.198 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3264
Tensor Coresno data128
Ray Tracing Coresno data8

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Length229 mm222 mm
Width1-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin1x 8-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR3GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount512 MB6 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit96 Bit
Memory clock speed700 MHz1937 MHz
Memory bandwidth44.8 GB/s186.0 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 2.0
HDMI-+

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.6
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.13.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 21 February 2008 14 June 2022
Maximum RAM amount 512 MB 6 GB
Chip lithography 65 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 95 Watt 75 Watt

Arc A380 has an age advantage of 14 years, a 1100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 983.3% more advanced lithography process, and 26.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition and Arc A380. We've got no test results to judge.


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