GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce GT 620

GeForce 9600 GSO
Memory: 384Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Apr 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce GT 620
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 620

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GSO

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GSOGeForce GT 620
GPU NameG92 ()vsGF108 (GF108-100-KB-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size324 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors754 millionvs585 million
Shaders96vs96
Compute Units6vs2
Core clock550 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs12vs4
TMUs48vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GT 620
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size384 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GSOGeForce GT 620
TDP84 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date28 Apr 2008vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    6.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    26.40 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    38.40 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GSO
    264.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 620
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better