NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 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 11 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

960 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +1156%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960

VS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Graphics Card

Jan 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

1127 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1024

Shading Units

64

TMUs

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

1024 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

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2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

120W

TDP

95W

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

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

G94

GM206-300-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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