GeForce 9600 GSO and A2 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GSO

A2

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

G92

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

April 2008

November 2021

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

None

SLI options

2-way

-

Boost clock speed

-

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

550 MHz

-

CUDA cores

96

-

Floating-point performance

264 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

60 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

26.4 billion/sec

70.80

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

384 MB

16 GB

Memory bus width

192 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVIHDTV

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

HDMI

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

+

8.6

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.2