GeForce 9600 GTX and GeForce RTX 4090 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GTX

GeForce RTX 4090

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

Ada Lovelace

GPU code name

G92

AD102-300-A1

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2009

September 2022

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

PCIe 4.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

1x 16-pin

Boost clock speed

2520 MHz

Core clock speed

580 MHz

2235 MHz

Floating-point performance

278.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

5 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

76,300 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

16384

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

450 Watt

Texture fill rate

27.84

1,290

Memory type

GDDR3

GDDR6X

Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

24 GB

Memory bus width

256 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

21000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

1,008 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

HDMI

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

12 Ultimate (12_2)

CUDA

1.1

8.9

OpenCL

1.1

3.0

OpenGL

3.3

4.6

Shader Model

4.0

6.6

Vulkan

N/A

1.3