GeForce 9600 GSO and GeForce 7950 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GSO vs GeForce 7950 GT
GeForce 9600 GSO
337
GeForce 7950 GT
354
GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 7950 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G92
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
April 2008
August 2006
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
2-way
-
Core clock speed
550 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
65 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
26.4 billion/sec
13.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
192 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
38.4 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
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