GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce GT 240

GeForce 9600 GSO
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce GT 240
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Nov 2009
GeForce GT 240

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 240

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9600 GSO

HWBench recommends GeForce 9600 GSO

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GT 240
GPU NameG92 ()vsGT215 (GT215-450-A2)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs144 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs727 million
Shaders96vs96
Compute Units6vs4
Core clock550 MHzvs550 MHz
ROPs12vs8
TMUs48vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GT 240
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs850 MHz
3400 MHz effective
Memory Size384 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GT 240
TDP84 wattsvs69 watts
Release Date28 Apr 2008vs17 Nov 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    6.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    4.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    26.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    17.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    38.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 240
    54.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    264.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 240
    257.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better