
GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GT 530 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GT 530 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G94
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
May 2011
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
268.8 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
50 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
11.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
28.8 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