NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

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

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

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

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 +129%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Jun 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

-

8

SM Count

24

64

Shading Units

192

32

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

182W

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

GT200

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

576 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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