
GeForce 9600 GSO and Radeon HD 7290 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GSO vs Radeon HD 7290
GeForce 9600 GSO
337
Radeon HD 7290
114
GeForce 9600 GSO
Radeon HD 7290
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G92
Zacate
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
April 2008
July 2011
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
2-way
-
Boost clock speed
-
400 MHz
Core clock speed
550 MHz
280 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
264 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
450 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
80
Power consumption (TDP)
105 Watt
18 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
26.4 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
System Shared
Maximum RAM amount
384 MB
System Shared
Memory bus width
192 Bit
System Shared
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)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A