GeForce 9800 GX2 and GeForce 9600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce 9800 GX2
821
GeForce 9600 GT
502
GeForce 9800 GX2
GeForce 9600 GT
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G92
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2008
February 2008
Bus support
-
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin & 8-pin
6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Core clock speed
600 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
256 (128 per GPU)
64
Floating-point performance
2x 384.0 gflops
208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
128
64
Power consumption (TDP)
197 Watt
96 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
105 °C
Texture fill rate
76.8 billion/sec
20.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
512 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1000 MHz
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
128 (64 per GPU)
57.6 GB/s
Display Connectors
HDMIDual Link DVI
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
+
+
HDMI
+
-
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