GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GT 230 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 230 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G94
G92B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
April 2009
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
500 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
240 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
96
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
75 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
24.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
24 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
No outputs
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