GeForce 8800 Ultra and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce 8800 Ultra
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G80
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2007
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
612 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores
612
-
Floating-point performance
387.1 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
90 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
681 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
96
Power consumption (TDP)
171 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
39.2 billion/sec
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1080 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
103.7 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A