GeForce 9600 GT and Riva TNT2 Ultra - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
Riva TNT2 Ultra
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fahrenheit (1998−2000)
GPU code name
G94
NV5 B5
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
March 1999
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
AGP 4x
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
None
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
150 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
250 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
15 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
0.3
Memory type
GDDR3
SDR
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
32 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
183 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
2.928 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
1x VGA, 2x S-Video
Multi monitor support
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
-
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
-
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
6.0
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
1.2
Shader Model
4.0
-
Vulkan
N/A
N/A