NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 140W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +931%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

Dec 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

980 MHz

Base Clock

-

1032 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

266 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

17.02GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

960

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

24

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

G94

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

140W

TDP

95W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2

Outputs

2x DVI

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

Vulkan

N/A

3.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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