GeForce 9800M GTX and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce 9800M GTX
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
G9x (2007−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
NB9E-GTX
G92
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
July 2008
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
SLI options
+
-
Core clock speed
500 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores per GPU
112
-
Floating-point performance
280 gflops
278.4 gflops
Gigaflops
420
-
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
754 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
112
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
28.00
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
800 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
51.2 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A