NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1184 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +1473%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

12

1280

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G92

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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