GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GTS 450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTS 450 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G94
GF106
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
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
790 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
455.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
1,170 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
144
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
106 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
18.96
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1536 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
4000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
96 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
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