GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 430 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G94
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
October 2010
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
700 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
96
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
49 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
11.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
9.6 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)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
+
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A