GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 7720 OEM - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon HD 7720 OEM

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale 2 (2009−2015)

GPU code name

G94

Barts

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

March 2013

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

840 MHz

CUDA cores

64

-

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

1,344 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

1,700 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

64

800

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

150 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

-

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

33.60

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

1 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

4200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

134.4 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort

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