GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon 8500 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon 8500
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon 8500
6
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon 8500
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Rage 7 (2001−2006)
GPU code name
G94
R200
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
August 2001
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
275 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
150 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
60 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
23 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
2.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
64 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
550 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
8.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
8.1
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.4
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A