GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema) - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R3 (Mullins/Beema)
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.1 (2014)
GPU code name
G94
Beema/Mullins
Market segment
Desktop
Laptop
Release date
February 2008
April 2014
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
686 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
350 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
128
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
-
Memory type
GDDR3
-
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
-
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
-
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
-
Shared memory
-
+
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
-
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (FL 12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
-
OpenGL
2.1
-
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
-