GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition - video card comparison
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 8600 GT Mac Edition
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
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
600 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
92.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
32
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
47 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
9.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
128 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
2x DVI
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A