NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 +409%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

GeForce GTX 480

Graphics Card

Apr 2008

Release Date

Mar 2010

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

800 MHz

Memory Clock

924 MHz

Memory

384MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

384bit

38.40GB/s

Bandwidth

177.4GB/s

Render Config

12

SM Count

15

-

Compute Units

-

96

Shading Units

480

48

TMUs

60

12

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

48 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

21.03 GPixel/s

26.40 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

42.06 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

264.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1345 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

168.1 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-375-A3

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

529 mm²

Board Design

84W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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