NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 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 980 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 5 months late

Boost Clock1216MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 384GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)

1952 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 's Advantages

Lower TDP (84W vs 165W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 980 +1786%

4.981 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GSO

0.264 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Apr 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

-

1216 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

800 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

384MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

256bit

Memory Bus

192bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

38.40GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

12

2048

Shading Units

96

128

TMUs

48

64

ROPs

12

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

-

2 MB

L2 Cache

48 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

77.82 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

6.600 GPixel/s

155.6 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

26.40 GTexel/s

-

4.981 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

264.0 GFLOPS

155.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

165W

TDP

84W

450 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

GM204-400-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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