
GeForce 9600 GT and Quadro FX 580 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Quadro FX 580
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Quadro FX 580
166
GeForce 9600 GT
Quadro FX 580
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G94
G96C
Market segment
Desktop
Workstation
Release date
February 2008
April 2009
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
450 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
72 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
314 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
32
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
40 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
7.200
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
25.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 2x DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A