NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 NVIDIA GeForce 9300 SE

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 256MB VRAM GeForce 9300 SE to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)

1016 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +11965%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 9300 SE

0.02 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 9300 SE

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

256MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR2

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

6.400GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

1024

Shading Units

8

64

TMUs

4

32

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

16 KB

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

2.160 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.160 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

20.80 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G98S

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.21 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

86 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

Unknown

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1x VGA

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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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