NVIDIA GeForce GTX 490 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 490 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 490 's Advantages
More VRAM (1536GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (164.0GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages
Lower TDP (84W vs 365W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 490
+341%
1.166 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GSO
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Apr 2008
GeForce 400
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
854 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
1536MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
384bit
Memory Bus
192bit
164.0GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
15
SM Count
12
480
Shading Units
96
60
TMUs
48
48
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
768 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
18.24 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
36.48 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
1166 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
145.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
365W
TDP
84W
750 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
3x DVI
1x mini-DisplayPort
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 8-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GF100
GPU Name
G92
GF100-375-A3
GPU Variant
-
Fermi
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.1 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
529 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
2.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
