NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1188MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

704 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (90W vs 95W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 950 +777%

1.825 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Aug 2015

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1024 MHz

Base Clock

-

1188 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1653 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

105.8GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

768

Shading Units

64

48

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

38.02 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

57.02 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

1.825 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

57.02 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

90W

TDP

95W

250 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G94

GM206-250-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

5.2

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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