NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1568 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages

Lower TDP (140W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +1310%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GTX

0.278 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce 9600 GTX

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

May 2009

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

256bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

1664

Shading Units

96

104

TMUs

48

56

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

64 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.280 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

27.84 GTexel/s

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

278.4 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

148W

TDP

140W

300 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

G92

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

65 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

0.754 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

324 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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