NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +767%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Jan 2015

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1127 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

-

96

Shading Units

1024

48

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

-

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

75.39 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

GM206

-

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Tesla

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

28 nm

0.754 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

324 mm²

Die Size

228 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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