NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1660 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 1660 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1785MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.1GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1312 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (120W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1660 +1708%

5.027 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1660

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Mar 2019

Release Date

May 2009

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

700 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.1GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

22

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1408

Shading Units

96

88

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1536 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

85.68 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

157.1 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

10.05 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

5.027 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

157.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

TU116

GPU Name

G92

TU116-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Turing

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

65 nm

6.6 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

284 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 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 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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