GeForce GTX 960A and GeForce 9600 GTX - video card comparison

GeForce GTX 960A

GeForce 9600 GTX

Architecture

Maxwell (2014−2018)

Tesla (2006−2010)

GPU code name

GM107

G92

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

March 2015

May 2009

Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1085 MHz

Core clock speed

1029 MHz

580 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,389 gflops

278.4 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

65 nm

Number of transistors

1,870 million

754 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

Power consumption (TDP)

75 Watt

140 Watt

Texture fill rate

43.40

27.84

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

5012 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory bandwidth

80.19 GB/s

44.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

DirectX

12 (11_0)

11.1 (10_0)

CUDA

5.0

1.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

3.3

Shader Model

5.1

4.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A