NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 OEM and 384MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 OEM 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1201MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

928 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 OEM +831%

2.46 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 OEM

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Nov 2015

Release Date

Apr 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1176 MHz

Base Clock

-

1201 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

192bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

96

64

TMUs

48

32

ROPs

12

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

48 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.43 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

76.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.460 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

76.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G92

GTX 960 OEM

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

324 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

84W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

No outputs

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

6.7

Shader Model

4.0

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