GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon R7 Graphics - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon R7 Graphics
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
G94
Spectre
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
January 2014
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
IGP
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
980 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
686 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
526.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
2,410 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
512
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
15 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
31.36
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)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
2.0
OpenGL
2.1
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
6.0
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131