GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce FX 5900 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce FX 5900 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rankine (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G94
NV35
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
May 2003
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 8x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
1x Molex
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
135 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
35 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
700 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
22.4 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)
9.0a
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.5 (2.1)
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A