GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 256 SDR - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

GeForce 256 SDR

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Celsius (1999−2005)

GPU code name

G94

NV10 A3

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

October 1999

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

AGP 4x

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

None

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

650 MHz

120 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

220 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

17 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

-

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

-

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

0.48

Memory type

GDDR3

SDR

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

32 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

143 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

1.144 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

1x VGA

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

7.0

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

2.1

1.2

Shader Model

4.0

-

Vulkan

N/A

N/A