GeForce 9600M GS and GeForce 720M - video card comparison
GeForce 9600M GS
GeForce 720M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)
GPU code name
NB9P-GE
GF117
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
June 2008
April 2013
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 2.0 x16
Core clock speed
103 MHz
625 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
68.8 gflops
240.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
585 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
96
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
33 Watt
Texture fill rate
6.880
10.00
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
DDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1600 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
12.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
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