GeForce GTX 980 Ti and GeForce 9600 GT - video card comparison
Passmark - benchmark score GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce 9600 GT
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
14228
GeForce 9600 GT
502
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GeForce 9600 GT
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name
GM200
G94
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
June 2015
February 2008
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
16x PCI-E 2.0
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 2.0 x16
Recommended system power (PSU)
600 Watt
-
Supplementary power connectors
6-pin + 8-pin
6-pin
SLI options
+
+
Boost clock speed
1075 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1000 MHz
650 MHz
CUDA cores
2816
64
Floating-point performance
6,060 gflops
208 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
65 nm
Number of transistors
8,000 million
505 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
2816
64
Power consumption (TDP)
250 Watt
96 Watt
Maximum GPU temperature
-
105 °C
Texture fill rate
176 billion/sec
20.8 billion/sec
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR3
Maximum RAM amount
6 GB
512 MB
Memory bus width
384 Bit
256 Bit
Memory clock speed
7.0 GB/s
900 MHz
Memory bandwidth
336.5 GB/s
57.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
Dual Link DVI-I, HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.2
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
Multi monitor support
4 displays
+
HDMI
+
-
HDCP
+
-
Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
2048x1536
G-SYNC support
+
-
Audio input for HDMI
Internal
S/PDIF
DirectX
12 (12_1)
11.1 (10_0)
CUDA
+
+
OpenCL
1.2
1.1
OpenGL
4.5
2.1
Shader Model
6.4
4.0
Vulkan
1.1.126
N/A
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-