NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 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 6 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 28.80GB/s)

992 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2 's Advantages

Lower TDP (50W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +2413%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

0.096 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 9500 GT Rev. 2

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Jul 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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

1024

Shading Units

32

64

TMUs

16

32

ROPs

8

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.800 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

9.600 GTexel/s

-

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

96.00 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

50W

300 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

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G96B

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

G96-309-B1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

UMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

144 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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