GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce 9600 GS OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GeForce 9600 GS OEM
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GM206
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2015
July 2008
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
1x 6-pin
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
-
Core clock speed
924 MHz
500 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
120 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
48
Texture fill rate
76.86
12.00
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR2
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
768 MB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
192 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
48 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
5.2
1.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.6
3.3
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A