NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 960 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock1178MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 17.02GB/s)
960 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (95W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 960
+1156%
2.413 TFLOPS
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
0.192 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Jan 2015
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1127 MHz
Base Clock
-
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR2
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
112.2GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
8
1024
Shading Units
64
64
TMUs
32
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
-
1024 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
37.70 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
75.39 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
-
-
-
2.413 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
75.39 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
120W
TDP
95W
300 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
2x DVI
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
G94
GM206-300-A1
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
28 nm
Process Size
65 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3
3.0
OpenCL
1.1
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
5.2
CUDA
1.1
6.4
Shader Model
4.0
