GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce GTX 960
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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GTX 960 |
| This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Supports G-Sync |
| Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty) |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 960
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GSO | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | G92 () | vs | GM206 (GM206-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 65 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 324 mm² | vs | 228 mm² |
| Transistors | 754 million | vs | 2,940 million |
| Shaders | 96 | vs | 1024 |
| Compute Units | 6 | vs | 8 |
| Core clock | 550 MHz | vs | 1127 MHz |
| ROPs | 12 | vs | 32 |
| TMUs | 48 | vs | 64 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce 9600 GSO | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR3 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 800 MHz
1600 MHz effective | vs | 1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 384 Mb | vs | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce 9600 GSO | | GeForce GTX 960 | |
|---|
| TDP | 84 watts | vs | 120 watts |
| Release Date | 28 Apr 2008 | vs | 22 Jan 2015 |
GeForce 9600 GSO
6.60 GP/s
GeForce GTX 960
36.10 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GSO
26.40 GT/s
GeForce GTX 960
72.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GSO
38.40 GB/s
GeForce GTX 960
112.20 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce 9600 GSO
264.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 960
2308.10 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better