GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and GeForce 7950 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs GeForce 7950 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
339
GeForce 7950 GT
354
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GeForce 7950 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G94
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2008
August 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
-
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
15.6 billion/sec
13.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A