NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1536MB VRAM GeForce GTX 480 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 1 months late

More VRAM (1536GB vs 512GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (177.4GB/s vs 57.60GB/s)

416 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT 's Advantages

Lower TDP (95W vs 250W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 480 +546%

1.345 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600 GT

0.208 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 480

VS

GeForce 9600 GT

Graphics Card

Mar 2010

Release Date

Feb 2008

GeForce 400

Generation

GeForce 9

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

-

Boost Clock

-

924 MHz

Memory Clock

900 MHz

Memory

1536MB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

384bit

Memory Bus

256bit

177.4GB/s

Bandwidth

57.60GB/s

Render Config

15

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

480

Shading Units

64

60

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

768 KB

L2 Cache

64 KB

Theoretical Performance

21.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

10.40 GPixel/s

42.06 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

20.80 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1345 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

208.0 GFLOPS

168.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

GF100

GPU Name

G94

GF100-375-A3

GPU Variant

G94-300-A1

Fermi

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

40 nm

Process Size

65 nm

3.1 billion

Transistors

0.505 billion

529 mm²

Die Size

240 mm²

Board Design

250W

TDP

95W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.3a

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

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

2.0

CUDA

1.1

5.1

Shader Model

4.0

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