GeForce 9600 GTX and GeForce GT 430 PCI - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
GeForce GT 430 PCI
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Fermi (2010−2014)
GPU code name
G92
GF108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2009
October 2010
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
1x 6-pin
None
Core clock speed
580 MHz
700 MHz
Floating-point performance
278.4 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
40 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
96
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
49 Watt
Texture fill rate
27.84
11.20
Memory type
GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
1400 MHz
1200 MHz
Memory bandwidth
44.8 GB/s
9.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_0)
CUDA
1.1
2.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
N/A