NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 OEM 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 130W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 OEM 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock888MHz

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1104 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

0.156 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM +1211%

2.046 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

VS

GeForce GTX 660 OEM

Graphics Card

Oct 2008

Release Date

Aug 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

823 MHz

-

Boost Clock

888 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

6

SM Count

-

48

Shading Units

1152

24

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

64 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.31 GPixel/s

15.60 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

85.25 GTexel/s

-

156.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.046 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

85.25 GFLOPS

Board Design

90W

TDP

130W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GK104

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK104-200-KD-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

3.54 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

294 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.1

CUDA

3.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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