NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

More VRAM (896GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

96 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 182W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 260 +80%

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

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GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Jun 2008

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 200

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

999 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

896MB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

448bit

Memory Bus

192bit

111.9GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

24

SM Count

12

192

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

48

28

ROPs

12

-

224 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

16.13 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

36.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

476.9 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

59.62 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

182W

TDP

84W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G92

G200-100-A2

GPU Variant

-

Tesla 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

65 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.4 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

576 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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