GeForce 9600 GT and GeForce GTX 490 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

GeForce GTX 490

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Fermi (2010−2014)

GPU code name

G94

GF100

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

-

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

2x 8-pin

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

650 MHz

608 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

3,100 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

480

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

365 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

36.48

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1536 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

3.4 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

164.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

3x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

-

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

+

2.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.1

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

N/A