GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce GT 620

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 620
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 15 May 2012
GeForce GT 620

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 620

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 620

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 620
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGF108 (GF108-100-KB-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs585 million
Shaders64vs96
Compute Units4vs2
Core clock650 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs32vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 620
Memory TypeGDDR3vsDDR3
Bus Width256 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GT 620
TDP95 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs15 May 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 620
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 620
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better