NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 660 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1032MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 660 +612%

1.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 660

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2012

Release Date

May 2009

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

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

192bit

Memory Bus

256bit

144.2GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

960

Shading Units

96

80

TMUs

48

24

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

384 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

20.64 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

82.56 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

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1.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

82.56 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

140W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GK106

GPU Name

G92

GK106-400-A1

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.54 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

221 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

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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