NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 1 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

More VRAM (6GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

1344 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +2316%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1530 MHz

Base Clock

-

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2001 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

22

SM Count

8

1408

Shading Units

64

88

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

95W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

G94

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

240 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

7.5

CUDA

1.1

6.6

Shader Model

4.0

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