GeForce 9600 GT and XGI Volari 8600 XT - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GT
XGI Volari 8600 XT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
XG4 (2003−2005)
GPU code name
G94
XG45
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
February 2008
-
Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
-
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
650 MHz
450 MHz
CUDA cores
64
-
Floating-point performance
208 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
110 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
-
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
-
Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
-
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
-
Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
3.600
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
256 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
900 MBps
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
14.4 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)
9.0c
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A