GeForce 9600 GSO: specs and benchmarks
Aggregated performance score
It provides poor gaming and benchmark performance at 0.84% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 4090.
Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9600 GSO sales 28 April 2008 at a recommended price of $49.99 . This is a Tesla architecture desktop card based on 65 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at office use. 384 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.8 GHz are supplied, and together with 192 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 38.4 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is single-slot card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 9" (22.9 cm). 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 105 Watt.
General info
Some basic facts about GeForce 9600 GSO: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in performance ranking | 1094 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Value for money | 0.09 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G92 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 28 April 2008 (15 years ago) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $49.99 | |
| Current price | $75 (1.5x MSRP) | of 168889 (A100 PCIe 80 GB) |
Value for money
Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.
Technical specs
GeForce 9600 GSO's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9600 GSO's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 20480 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| CUDA cores | 96 | |
| Core clock speed | 550 MHz | of 2610 (Radeon RX 6500 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 14400 (GeForce GTX 1070 SLI Mobile) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 4 (Radeon 780M) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 105 Watt | of 2400 (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Maximum GPU temperature | 105 °C | |
| Texture fill rate | 26.4 billion/sec | of 969.9 (H100 SXM5 96 GB) |
| Floating-point performance | 264 gflops | of 16384 (Radeon Pro Duo) |
Size and compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9600 GSO and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Bus support | PCI-E 2.0 | |
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 9" (22.9 cm) | |
| Height | 4.376" (11.1 cm) | |
| Width | 1-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 6-pin | |
| SLI options | 2-way |
Memory
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9600 GSO: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR3 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 384 MB | of 192 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Memory bus width | 192 Bit | of 8192 (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 800 MHz | of 23000 (GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER) |
| Memory bandwidth | 38.4 GB/s | of 3276 (Aldebaran) |
Video outputs and ports
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9600 GSO. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | Dual Link DVIHDTV | |
| Multi monitor support | + | |
| HDMI | + | |
| Maximum VGA resolution | 2048x1536 | |
| Audio input for HDMI | S/PDIF |
API support
APIs supported by GeForce 9600 GSO, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 2.1 | of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | + |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9600 GSO. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark performance score. We are regularly improving our combining algorithms, but if you find some perceived inconsistencies, feel free to speak up in comments section, we usually fix problems quickly.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark, part of Passmark PerformanceTest suite. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
Benchmark coverage: 25%
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AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9600 GSO is Radeon E6460, which is slower by 1% and lower by 4 positions in our ranking.
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Similar GPUs
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Recommended processors
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