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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1070 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 1070 GDDR5X 's Advantages
Released 9 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock1683MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1824 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 150W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1070 GDDR5X +2224%
6.463 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS

Graphics Card

Dec 2018
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
-
1683 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

-
-
-
15
SM Count
12
1920
Shading Units
96
120
TMUs
48
64
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
2 MB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-

Theoretical Performance

107.7 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
202.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
101.0 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
6.463 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
202.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-

Board Design

150W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI 1x S-Video
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP104
GPU Name
G92
GP104-200-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
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