GeForce 9600 GT and R480 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
R480
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
G94
R480
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
-
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
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CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
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Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
130 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
160 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
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Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
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Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
900 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
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Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0b (9_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A