GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 8600 GS - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs GeForce 8600 GS
GeForce 9600 GT
502
GeForce 8600 GS
94
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8600 GS
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G94
G84
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
April 2007
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
540 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
38.08 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
80 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
289 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
16
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
47 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
4.320
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A