GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock980MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
+1166%
2634
GeForce 9600 GT
208
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
+365%
1616
GeForce 9600 GT
347
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
915 MHz
Base Clock
-
980 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
8
1344
Shading Units
64
112
TMUs
32
24
ROPs
16
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
27.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
109.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
2.634 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
109.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G94
GK104-300-KD-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
