GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce GTX 560

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTX 560
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2011
GeForce GTX 560

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 560 .
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 560

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 560

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 560

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GTX 560
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGF114 (GF114-325-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs40 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders64vs336
Compute Units4vs7
Core clock650 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GTX 560
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GTX 560
TDP95 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs17 May 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    11.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    45.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 560
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 560
    1089.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better