GeForce 9600M GT and Radeon HD 8590M - video card comparison
GeForce 9600M GT
Radeon HD 8590M
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
GCN (2011−2017)
GPU code name
NB9P-GS
Sun
Market segment
Laptop
Laptop
Release date
June 2008
November 2012
Interface
MXM-II
PCIe 3.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
-
Boost clock speed
-
825 MHz
Core clock speed
120 MHz
620 MHz
CUDA cores
32
-
Floating-point performance
80 gflops
528.0 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
314 million
690 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
32
384
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
8.000
16.50
Memory type
GDDR2, GDDR3
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
1 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
4500 MHz
Memory bandwidth
25.6 GB/s
36 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
No outputs
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
12 (11_1)
CUDA
+
-
OpenCL
1.1
1.2
OpenGL
3.3
4.6
Shader Model
4.0
5.1
Vulkan
N/A
1.2.131