GeForce GTX 950 OEM vs GeForce 9600 GT

GeForce GTX 950 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 14 May 2016
GeForce GTX 950 OEM
GeForce 9600 GT
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Feb 2008
GeForce 9600 GT
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 950 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

GeForce GTX 950 OEM

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950 OEM

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 OEMGeForce 9600 GT
GPU NameGM206 (GM206 950 OEM)vsG94 (G94-300-A1)
Fab Process28 nmvs65 nm
Die Size228 mm²vs240 mm²
Transistors2,940 millionvs505 million
Shaders1024vs64
Compute Units8vs4
Core clock924 MHzvs650 MHz
ROPs32vs16
TMUs64vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 950 OEMGeForce 9600 GT
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width128 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1253 MHz
5012 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 950 OEMGeForce 9600 GT
TDP0 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date14 May 2016vs21 Feb 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    29.57 GP/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    10.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    59.10 GT/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    20.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    80.20 GB/s
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    57.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 950 OEM
    1892.40 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9600 GT
    208.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better