NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 32MB VRAM GeForce2 GTS 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 9600 GT 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 10 months late
More VRAM (512GB vs 32GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (57.60GB/s vs 5.312GB/s)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Graphics Card
Apr 2000
Release Date
Feb 2008
GeForce 2
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
AGP 4x
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
-
-
-
-
-
166 MHz
Memory Clock
900 MHz
Memory
32MB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR
Memory Type
GDDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
256bit
5.312GB/s
Bandwidth
57.60GB/s
Render Config
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-
-
-
SM Count
8
-
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
L2 Cache
64 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
800.0 MPixel/s
Pixel Rate
10.40 GPixel/s
1.600 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
20.80 GTexel/s
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-
-
-
FP32 (float)
208.0 GFLOPS
-
-
-
Board Design
Unknown
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
NV15
GPU Name
G94
GeForce2 GTS
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Celsius
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
180 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.025 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
88 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
7.0
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
1.5
OpenGL
3.3
N/A
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
-
CUDA
1.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
