NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 680 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 8 months late

Boost Clock1058MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)

1504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (40W vs 195W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 680 +3962%

3.25 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

0.08 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 680

VS

GeForce 9500 GS Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Mar 2012

Release Date

Jul 2008

GeForce 600

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1006 MHz

Base Clock

-

1058 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

192.3GB/s

Bandwidth

16.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

-

Compute Units

-

1536

Shading Units

32

128

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

33.86 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

135.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.250 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

135.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GK104

GPU Name

G96C

GK104-400-A2

GPU Variant

-

Kepler

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

3.54 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

294 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

195W

TDP

40W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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