GeForce 9800 GTX and GeForce 9600 GSO - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce 9600 GSO
GeForce 9800 GTX
792
GeForce 9600 GSO
337
GeForce 9800 GTX
GeForce 9600 GSO
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
April 2008
Bus support
PCI-E 2.0
PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
2x 6-pin
6-pin
SLI options
+
2-way
Core clock speed
675 MHz
550 MHz
CUDA cores
128
96
Floating-point performance
432.1 gflops
264 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
96
Power consumption (TDP)
140 Watt
105 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
43.2 billion/sec
26.4 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
384 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
1100 MHz
800 MHz
Memory bandwidth
70.4 GB/s
38.4 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDTVDual Link DVI
Dual Link DVIHDTV
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
Via Adapter
+
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF
S/PDIF
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
2.1
2.1
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A