GeForce 9600 GTX and GeForce 7900 GX2 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
GeForce 7900 GX2
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Curie (2003−2013)
GPU code name
G92
G71
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2009
April 2006
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 1.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
2x 6-pin
Core clock speed
580 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
278.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
90 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
278 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
-
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
27.84
12.00
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.8 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
-
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A