GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 950

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GTX 950
GPU NameG94 (G94-300-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process65 nmvs28 nm
Die Size240 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors505 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders64vs768
Compute Units4vs6
Core clock650 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs32vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR3vsGDDR5
Bus Width256 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size512 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce 9600 GTGeForce GTX 950
TDP95 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date21 Feb 2008vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better