GeForce 9500 GS and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9500 GS vs GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 9500 GS
193
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 9500 GS
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G96
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
April 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Core clock speed
550 MHz
540 MHz
Floating-point performance
-
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
16
Power consumption (TDP)
40 Watt
47 Watt
Texture fill rate
8.800
4.320
Memory type
DDR2
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
1008 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
16.13 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 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
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A