NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs Intel Arc A580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 8GB VRAM Arc A580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 175W)
Intel Arc A580 's Advantages
Released 15 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock2000MHz
More VRAM (8GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (512.0GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)
3008 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
Arc A580
+5808%
12.29 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce 9600 GT
347
Arc A580
+3028%
10855
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Oct 2023
GeForce 9
Generation
Alchemist(Arc 5)
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1700 MHz
-
Boost Clock
2000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
512.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
-
64
Shading Units
3072
32
TMUs
192
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
384
-
RT Cores
24
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
8 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
192.0 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
384.0 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
24.58 TFLOPS
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
12.29 TFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
1.536 TFLOPS
Board Design
95W
TDP
175W
250 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.13x DisplayPort 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
DG2-512
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
ACM-G10
Tesla
Architecture
Generation 12.7
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
6 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
21.7 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
406 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.3
1.1
CUDA
-
4.0
Shader Model
6.6
