GeForce GTS 450 vs GeForce 9600 GSO 512

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NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM GeForce GTS 450 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GSO 512 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GTS 450 Advantages

Released 1 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.73GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

144 additional rendering cores

GeForce 9600 GSO 512 Advantages

Lower TDP (90W vs 106W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTS 450 +285%

601

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

156

GeForce GTS 450

VS

GeForce 9600 GSO 512

Graphics Card

Sep 2010

Release Date

Oct 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

902 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

256bit

57.73GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

4

SM Count

6

192

Shading Units

48

32

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

6.264 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

25.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

15.60 GTexel/s

601.3 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

156.0 GFLOPS

50.11 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

106W

TDP

90W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI
1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI
1x S-Video

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GF106

GPU Name

G94

GF106-250-KA-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.17 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

238 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

1.1

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

Vulkan

N/A

2.1

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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