GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTX 260 Rev. 2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla 2.0 (2007−2013)
GPU code name
G94
GT200B
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
July 2008
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
2x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
576 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
476.9 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
1,400 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
192
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
182 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
36.86
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
896 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
448 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1998 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
111.9 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.3
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A