GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 8400 GS PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8400 GS PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G94
GT218
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
April 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCI
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
520 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
39.36 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
260 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
16
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
40 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
4.160
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
1.2
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A