GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GT

Radeon HD 7950 Monica BIOS 2

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

G94

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

February 2008

January 2012

Bus support

16x PCI-E 2.0

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

6-pin

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

SLI options

Core clock speed

650 MHz

800 MHz

CUDA cores

Floating-point performance

208 gflops

1,229 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

505 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

768

Power consumption (TDP)

96 Watt

85 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

105 °C

Texture fill rate

20.8 billion/sec

38.40

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

3 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

900 MHz

5000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

57.6 GB/s

240.0 GB/s

Display Connectors

HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI

1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort

Multi monitor support

HDMI

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

Audio input for HDMI

S/PDIF

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

OpenCL

1.1

1.2

OpenGL

2.1

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

5.1

Vulkan

N/A

1.2.131