GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon Sky 900 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon Sky 900
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)
GPU code name
G94
Tahiti
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
March 2013
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
PCIe 3.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
2x 8-pin
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
-
950 MHz
Core clock speed
650 MHz
825 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
2x 3,405 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
4,313 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
3584
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
300 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
106.4
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
6 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
384 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
5000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
480 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x mini-DisplayPort
Multi monitor support
+
-
Dual-link DVI support
-
1
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