NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1600 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +1784%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Feb 2008

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1050 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

900 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.60GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

-

8

SM Count

-

64

Shading Units

1664

32

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

10.40 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

20.80 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

-

208.0 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Board Design

95W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G94

GPU Name

GM204

G94-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.505 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

240 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

5.2

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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