GeForce GT 720M and GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition - video card comparison
GeForce GT 720M
GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition
Architecture
Fermi (2010−2014)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
N14M-GE
G94
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
April 2013
February 2008
Bus support
PCI Express 2.0
-
Interface
PCIe 2.0 x8
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
-
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
938 MHz
-
Core clock speed
625 MHz
600 MHz
Floating-point performance
240.0 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
915 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
96
64
Power consumption (TDP)
33 Watt
95 Watt
Texture fill rate
12.13
19.20
Memory type
DDR3
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
1800 - 2000 MHz
1400 MBps
Memory bandwidth
12.8 GB/s
44.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Standard memory configuration
DDR3
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
2x DVI, 1x S-Video
eDP 1.2 signal support
Up to 2560x1600
-
LVDS signal support
Up to 1920x1200
-
VGA аnalog display support
Up to 2048x1536
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
Up to 2560x1600
-
HDCP content protection
+
-
HDMI
+
-
7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI
+
-
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
1.1.126
N/A
Blu-Ray 3D Support
+
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-
TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming
+
-