GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 7540D IGP - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon HD 7540D IGP

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 3 (2010−2013)

GPU code name

G94

Scrapper

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

October 2012

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

-

SLI options

+

-

Core clock speed

650 MHz

760 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

291.8 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

32 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

1,303 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

192

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

65 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

9.120

Memory type

GDDR3

System Shared

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

System Shared

Memory bus width

256 Bit

System Shared

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

System Shared

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

-

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

No outputs

Multi monitor support

+

-

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