NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTX 280 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 280 's Advantages

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (141.7GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Lower TDP (140W vs 236W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 280 +123%

0.622 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 280

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jun 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

-

1107 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR3

Memory Type

GDDR3

512bit

Memory Bus

256bit

141.7GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

30

SM Count

12

240

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

16

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

19.26 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

48.16 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

622.1 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

77.76 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

236W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x S-Video

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GT200

GPU Name

G92

G200-300-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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