NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 580 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 580 Rev. 2 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.4GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 244W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2 +468%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580 Rev. 2

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Jun 2011

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

1002 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

192.4GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

16

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

24.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

49.41 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G92

GF110-380-A1

GPU Variant

-

Fermi 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

520 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

244W

TDP

140W

550 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

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