NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 670 and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GTX to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock980MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.3GB/s vs 44.80GB/s)
1248 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GTX 's Advantages
Lower TDP (140W vs 170W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 670
+847%
2.634 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GTX
0.278 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2012
Release Date
May 2009
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
700 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR3
256bit
Memory Bus
256bit
192.3GB/s
Bandwidth
44.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
12
1344
Shading Units
96
112
TMUs
48
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
27.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.280 GPixel/s
109.8 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
27.84 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.634 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
278.4 GFLOPS
109.8 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
170W
TDP
140W
450 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GK104
GPU Name
G92
GK104-325-A2
GPU Variant
-
Kepler
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
3.54 billion
Transistors
0.754 billion
294 mm²
Die Size
324 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
