NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 240
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 240 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 54.40GB/s)
NVIDIA GeForce GT 240 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 9 months late
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
32 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (69W vs 95W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 240
+23%
0.257 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 9600 GT
347
GeForce GT 240
+21%
423
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Nov 2009
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 200
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
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900 MHz
Memory Clock
850 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR5
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
54.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
12
64
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
32
16
ROPs
8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
4.400 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
17.60 GTexel/s
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-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
257.3 GFLOPS
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-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
69W
250 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI
1x VGA
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
GT215
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
GT215-450-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
40 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.727 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
144 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_1)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.2
4.0
Shader Model
4.1
