NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 Ti and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 Ti 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 8 months late
Boost Clock980MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 150W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660 Ti
+1271%
2.634 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2012
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
915 MHz
Base Clock
-
980 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
192bit
Memory Bus
256bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
1344
Shading Units
64
112
TMUs
32
24
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
384 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
109.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.634 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
109.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
150W
TDP
95W
450 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G94
GK104-300-KD-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
Vulkan
N/A
3.0
CUDA
1.1
5.1
Shader Model
4.0
