GeForce 9600 GSO and HD Graphics 2500 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GSO

HD Graphics 2500

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Gen. 7 Ivy Bridge (2011−2012)

GPU code name

G92

Ivy Bridge GT1

Market segment

Desktop

Laptop

Release date

April 2008

April 2012

Bus support

PCI-E 2.0

-

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

550 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

96

-

Floating-point performance

264 gflops

13.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

22 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

392 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

6

Power consumption (TDP)

105 Watt

unknown

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

26.4 billion/sec

6.900

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

384 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

192 Bit

64/128 Bit

Memory clock speed

800 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

38.4 GB/s

-

Shared memory

-

+

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)

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