GeForce 9600 GT and Mobility Radeon HD 5850 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Mobility Radeon HD 5850
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Terascale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G94
Broadway-PRO
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
February 2008
January 2010
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
800.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
1,040 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
800
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
39 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
20.00
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3, GDDR3, GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
No outputs
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A