GeForce 9600 GTX vs GeForce GT 620

GeForce 9600 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2009
GeForce 9600 GTX
GeForce GT 620
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 620

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 620

91 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9600 GTX .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTXGeForce GT 620
GPU NameG92 ()vsGF108 (GF108-100-KB-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs585 million
Shaders96vs96
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock580 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs48vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTXGeForce GT 620
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed700 MHz
1400 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTXGeForce GT 620
TDP140 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date27 May 2009vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    9.28 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    27.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    44.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GTX
    278.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 620
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better