GeForce GT 525M and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison
GeForce GT 525M
GeForce 9600 GTX
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N12P-GE
G92
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
January 2011
May 2009
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Core clock speed
600 MHz
580 MHz
CUDA cores
96
-
Floating-point performance
230.4 gflops
278.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
40 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
585 million
754 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
96
Power consumption (TDP)
23 Watt
140 Watt
Texture fill rate
9.6 billion/sec
27.84
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
1536 MB
512 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
900 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 API
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
3.3
Shader Model
5.1
4.0
Vulkan
N/A
N/A
Optimus
+
-