NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT and 384MB VRAM GeForce 8800 GS to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages
More VRAM (512GB vs 384GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 38.40GB/s)
Lower TDP (95W vs 105W)
NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GS 's Advantages
32 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600 GT
0.208 TFLOPS
GeForce 8800 GS
+26%
0.264 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Feb 2008
Release Date
Jan 2008
GeForce 9
Generation
GeForce 8
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
900 MHz
Memory Clock
800 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
384MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
192bit
57.60GB/s
Bandwidth
38.40GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
8
SM Count
12
64
Shading Units
96
32
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
12
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
64 KB
L2 Cache
48 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
10.40 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.600 GPixel/s
20.80 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
26.40 GTexel/s
-
-
-
208.0 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
264.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
95W
TDP
105W
250 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x S-Video
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
G94
GPU Name
G92
G94-300-A1
GPU Variant
G92-150-A2
Tesla
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
65 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.505 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
240 mm²
Die Size
324 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
1.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
