NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1708MHz

More VRAM (3GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1056 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104 +1315%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

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GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB GP104

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Dec 2016

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1506 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1708 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

2002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

192.2GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

9

96

Shading Units

1152

48

TMUs

72

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1536 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

81.98 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

123.0 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

61.49 GFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.935 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

123.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

120W

300 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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GP104

-

GPU Variant

GP104-140-KA-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

16 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

7.2 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

314 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

6.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.4

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