NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 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 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

120 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 6 months late

Lower TDP (140W vs 171W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2 +92%

0.536 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2008

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

256bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

27

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

216

Shading Units

96

72

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

L1 Cache

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

41.47 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

536.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

67.07 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GT200B

GPU Name

G92

G200-103-B2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

55 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

470 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

171W

TDP

140W

450 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

11.1 (10_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

3.3

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

1.3

CUDA

1.1

4.0

Shader Model

4.0

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