NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 's Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 171W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

168 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 +243%

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Nov 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

900 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

27

48

Shading Units

216

24

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

28

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

41.47 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

536.5 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

67.07 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

171W

250 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GT200B

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-103-B2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

55 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

470 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

1.3

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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