GeForce 9600 GT and Radeon X700 - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9600 GT vs Radeon X700
GeForce 9600 GT
502
Radeon X700
74
GeForce 9600 GT
Radeon X700
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
R400 (2004−2008)
GPU code name
G94
RV410
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
September 2004
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
400 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
120 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
44 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
3.200
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
128 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
8 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0b (9_2)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.0
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A