NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 460 v2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 160W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 v2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (96.19GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

240 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 460 v2 +276%

1.046 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce GTX 460 v2

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Sep 2011

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1002 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

96.19GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

7

96

Shading Units

336

48

TMUs

56

16

ROPs

24

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

384 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.91 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

43.62 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1046 GFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

87.19 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

160W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GF114

-

GPU Variant

GF114-400-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

1.95 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

332 mm²

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.1

CUDA

2.1

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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