GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs GeForce 9800 GTX+

GeForce 9600 GSO 512
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Oct 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 16 Jan 2009
GeForce 9800 GTX+
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO 512

51 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GTX+

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce 9800 GTX+

HWBench recommends GeForce 9800 GTX+

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSO 512GeForce 9800 GTX+
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsG92B (G92-420-B1)
Fab Process65 nmvs55 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs260 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs754 million
Shaders48vs128
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock650 MHzvs738 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSO 512GeForce 9800 GTX+
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSO 512GeForce 9800 GTX+
TDP90 wattsvs141 watts
Release Date23 Oct 2008vs16 Jan 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    11.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    15.60 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    47.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO 512
    156.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX+
    470.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better