GeForce 9600 GTX and RV516 - video card comparison
GeForce 9600 GTX
RV516
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Ultra-Threaded SE
GPU code name
G92
RV516
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
90 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
105 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
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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)
9.0c (9_3)
CUDA
1.1
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OpenCL
1.1
N/A
OpenGL
3.3
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
3.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A