NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 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 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Boost Clock1709MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1184 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
+1473%
4.375 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
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
-
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
700 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
12
1280
Shading Units
96
80
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 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
GP104
GPU Name
G92
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
16 nm
Process Size
65 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
314 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
