GeForce 7600 GT and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce 7600 GT
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G73
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2006
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
560 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
177 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
96
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.720
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
22.4 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
9.0c (9_3)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
-
1.1
OpenCL
N/A
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
3.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A