GeForce 9600 GTX and FireStream 9170 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
FireStream 9170
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
TeraScale (2005−2013)
GPU code name
G92
RV670
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2009
November 2007
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
580 MHz
800 MHz
Floating-point performance
278.4 gflops
512.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
55 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
666 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
320
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
105 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
12.80
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
2 GB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.8 GB/s
51.2 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
10.1 (10_1)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A