NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 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 375W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 's Advantages

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512 +287%

1.078 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce GTX 480 Core 512

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Unknown

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 400

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

700 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

1536MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

134.4GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

16

96

Shading Units

512

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

48

-

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.86 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.73 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1078 GFLOPS

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

375W

300 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

2x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GF100

-

GPU Variant

GF100-ES-DT1-A2

Tesla

Architecture

Fermi

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

40 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

3.1 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

529 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

2.0

4.0

Shader Model

5.1

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