GeForce 9600 GSO 512 and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
HD Graphics 2500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)
GPU code name
G94
Ivy Bridge GT1
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
October 2008
April 2012
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
2-way
-
Boost clock speed
-
1150 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
48
-
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
13.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
22 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
392 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
6
Power consumption (TDP)
90 Watt
unknown
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
15.6 billion/sec
6.900
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64/128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
System Shared
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
Two Dual Link DVIHDTV
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.1.80