GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon 9000 LE - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon 9000 LE

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Rage 7 (2001−2006)

GPU code name

G94

RV250

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

July 2002

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

250 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

150 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

36 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

-

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

28 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

1.000

Memory type

GDDR3

DDR

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

64 MB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

6.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link 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