GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce 8800 GTS 640 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 8800 GTS 640
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G94
G80
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
November 2006
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
513 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
228.1 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
681 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
96
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
143 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
24.62
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
640 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
320 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1584 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
63.36 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 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
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A