GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon HD 8790M - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon HD 8790M
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon HD 8790M
1344
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon HD 8790M
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
G94
Mars XTX
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
February 2008
November 2012
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
MXM-A (3.0)
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
900 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
850 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
691.2 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
950 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
384
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
unknown
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
21.60
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
64 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
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)
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