GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060 |
| 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) |
| Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
Reasons to consider GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP106 (GP106-400-A1) | vs | G94 (G94-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 16 nm | vs | 65 nm |
| Die Size | 200 mm² | vs | 240 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,400 million | vs | 505 million |
| Shaders | 1280 | vs | 64 |
| Compute Units | 10 | vs | 4 |
| Core clock | 1506 MHz | vs | 600 MHz |
| ROPs | 48 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 80 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR2 |
| Bus Width | 192 bit | vs | 256 bit |
| Memory Speed | 2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective | vs | 266 MHz
532 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 6144 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GTX 1060 | | GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition | |
|---|
| TDP | 120 watts | vs | 95 watts |
| Release Date | 10 Jul 2016 | vs | 22 Dec 2008 |
GigaPixels - higher is better
GigaTexels - higher is better
GFLOPs - higher is better