NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 140W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660 +931%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

VS

GeForce GTX 660

Graphics Card

Dec 2008

Release Date

Sep 2012

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

980 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1032 MHz

266 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR2

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

17.02GB/s

Bandwidth

144.2GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

64

Shading Units

960

32

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

24

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

64 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

Theoretical Performance

9.600 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

20.64 GPixel/s

19.20 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

82.56 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

192.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.981 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

82.56 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GK106

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

GK106-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

2.54 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

221 mm²

Board Design

95W

TDP

140W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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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