GeForce GT 720 and GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 720

GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2

Architecture

Kepler 2.0 (2013−2015)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

GK208B

G94B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

September 2014

February 2008

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Core clock speed

797 MHz

650 MHz

CUDA cores

192

-

Floating-point performance

306.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

55 nm

Number of transistors

915 million

505 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

192

64

Power consumption (TDP)

19 Watt

95 Watt

Maximum GPU temperature

98 °C

-

Texture fill rate

12.75

20.80

Memory type

DDR3 / GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

1 GB or 1 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1.8 GBps or 5.0 GB/s

1800 MBps

Memory bandwidth

14.4 (DDR3) or 40 (GDDR5)

57.6 GB/s

Display Connectors

Dual Link DVI-DHDMIVGA

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Multi monitor support

3 displays

-

HDMI

+

-

HDCP

+

-

Maximum VGA resolution

2048x1536

-

Audio input for HDMI

Internal

-

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

+

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.4

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

3D Blu-Ray

+

-

3D Gaming

+

-

3D Vision

+

-