GeForce 7900 GS and GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 7900 GS
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
Architecture
Curie (2003−2013)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G71
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2006
February 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
450 MHz
600 MHz
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
278 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
-
64
Power consumption (TDP)
49 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.000
19.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1320 MHz
1400 MBps
Memory bandwidth
42.24 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