NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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

Released 1 years and 6 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 +468%

1.581 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 580

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Nov 2010

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 500

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

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

512

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

48

ROPs

16

-

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

-

1.581 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

197.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

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 Processor

GF110

GPU Name

G92

GF110-375-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

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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