GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 4720 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 4720
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G94
RV730
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
December 2011
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
600 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
384.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
514 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
320
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
55 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
19.20
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
1 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1334 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
21.34 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A