GeForce 9600 GTX and R600 - video card comparison

GeForce 9600 GTX

R600

Architecture

Tesla (2006−2010)

TeraScale (2005−2013)

GPU code name

G92

R600

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2009

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Interface

PCIe 2.0 x16

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Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

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Core clock speed

580 MHz

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Floating-point performance

278.4 gflops

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Manufacturing process technology

65 nm

80 nm

Number of transistors

754 million

720 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

320

Power consumption (TDP)

140 Watt

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Texture fill rate

27.84

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Memory type

GDDR3

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Maximum RAM amount

512 MB

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Memory bus width

256 Bit

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Memory clock speed

1400 MHz

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Memory bandwidth

44.8 GB/s

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Display Connectors

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

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DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

10.0 (10_0)

CUDA

1.1

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OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

3.3

3.3 (full) Shader Model4.04.0

Vulkan

N/A

N/A