GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 6450 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 6450 OEM
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)
GPU code name
G94
Caicos
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
February 2011
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
625 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
200 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
370 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
160
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
18 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
5.000
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1066 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
8.528 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Multi monitor support
+
-
HDMI
-
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.2 (11_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
2.1
4.4
Shader Model
4.0
5.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A