GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2080 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce RTX 2080 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1710MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
2880 additional rendering cores
GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 215W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 2080
+4741%
10070
GeForce 9600 GT
208
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce RTX 2080
+3092%
11078
GeForce 9600 GT
347
Graphics Card
Sep 2018
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 20
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1515 MHz
Base Clock
-
1710 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1750 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
448.0GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
46
SM Count
8
2944
Shading Units
64
184
TMUs
32
64
ROPs
16
368
Tensor Cores
-
46
RT Cores
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
4 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
314.6 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
20.14 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
10.07 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
314.6 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
215W
TDP
95W
550 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x USB Type-C
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
TU104
GPU Name
G94
TU104-400A-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Turing
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
12 nm
Process Size
65 nm
13.6 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
545 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
7.5
CUDA
1.1
6.6
Shader Model
4.0
