GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs 8300

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking	1432	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Power efficiency	0.46	no data
Architecture	Tesla (2006−2010)	Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code name	C78	G94
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	6 May 2008 (17 years ago)	29 July 2008 (17 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	16	48
Core clock speed	500 MHz	500 MHz
Number of transistors	210 million	505 million
Manufacturing process technology	80 nm	65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	40 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	4.000	12.00
Floating-point processing power	0.048 TFLOPS	0.12 TFLOPS
ROPs	4	12
TMUs	8	24
L2 Cache	no data	48 KB

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCI	PCIe 2.0 x16
Width	IGP	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	System Shared	DDR2
Maximum RAM amount	System Shared	768 MB
Memory bus width	System Shared	192 Bit
Memory clock speed	System Shared	1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	no data	48 GB/s
Shared memory	+	no data

Connectivity and outputs

This section shows the types and number of video connectors on each GPU. The data applies specifically to desktop reference models (for example, NVIDIA’s Founders Edition). OEM partners often modify both the number and types of ports. On notebook GPUs, video‐output options are determined by the laptop’s design rather than the graphics chip itself.

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

API and SDK support

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	11.1 (10_0)	11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model	4.0	4.0
OpenGL	3.3	3.3
OpenCL	N/A	1.1
Vulkan	N/A	N/A
CUDA	-	1.1

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	6 May 2008	29 July 2008
Chip lithography	80 nm	65 nm