NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 5060 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 170W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 's Advantages

Released 15 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock2520MHz

More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (355.0GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

4512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 5060 +8252%

23.22 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

GeForce RTX 5060

Graphics Card

May 2009

Release Date

Jan 2025

GeForce 9

Generation

GeForce 50

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 5.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

2235 MHz

-

Boost Clock

2520 MHz

700 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

512MB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR7

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

44.80GB/s

Bandwidth

355.0GB/s

Render Config

-

12

SM Count

36

96

Shading Units

4608

48

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

144

-

RT Cores

36

-

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

64 KB

L2 Cache

32 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

9.280 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

121.0 GPixel/s

27.84 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

362.9 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

23.22 TFLOPS

278.4 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

23.22 TFLOPS

-

FP64 (double)

362.9 GFLOPS

Board Design

140W

TDP

170W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 16-pin

Graphics Processor

G92

GPU Name

GB206

-

GPU Variant

GB206

Tesla

Architecture

Blackwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

0

0.754 billion

Transistors

Unknown

324 mm²

Die Size

Unknown

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

3.3

OpenGL

4.6

1.1

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

1.1

CUDA

10.1

4.0

Shader Model

6.8

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