GeForce GT 230 and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce GT 230
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Tesla (2006−2010)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
G94B
G92
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
October 2009
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
650 MHz
580 MHz
Floating-point performance
156 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
55 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
505 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
48
96
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
15.60
27.84
Memory type
GDDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
256 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
1.1
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
3.3
3.3
Shader Model
4.0
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A