NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB 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 1060 5 GB 's Advantages

Released 9 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock1709MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)

1216 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +2178%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

0.192 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

-

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

-

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

700 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

160bit

Memory Bus

256bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

44.80GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

64

80

TMUs

32

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

1280 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

9.600 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

19.20 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

192.0 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

G94

GP106-350-K3-A1

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

65 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

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 Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.1

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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