NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX 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 GTX 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (140W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 +71%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 200

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

999 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

896MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

448bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

24

96

Shading Units

192

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

64 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

182W

300 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

G92

GPU Name

GT200

-

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

324 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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