GeForce 8500 GT and GeForce 9600 GS OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 8500 GT
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G86
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2007
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
459 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
29.376 gflops
120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
80 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
210 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
16
48
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
3.6 billion/sec
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
256 MB
768 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
48 GB/s
Standard memory config per GPU
256 MB
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A