GeForce 9500 GT and GeForce 8800 GTS 640 - video card comparison
GeForce 9500 GT
GeForce 8800 GTS 640
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G96
G80
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
November 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
513 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
89.6 gflops
228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
50 Watt
143 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
8.8 billion/sec
24.62
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
640 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 (GDDR3) and 500 (DDR2) MHz
1584 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 (GDDR3) and 16.0 (DDR2)
63.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVISingle Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A