GeForce 9600 GTX: specs and benchmarks
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Summary
NVIDIA started GeForce 9600 GTX sales 27 May 2009. This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 65 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.7 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 44.8 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 140 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about GeForce 9600 GTX: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | not rated | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Architecture | Tesla (2006−2010) | |
| GPU code name | G92 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 27 May 2009 (16 years ago) |
Detailed specifications
GeForce 9600 GTX's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9600 GTX's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 96 | of 960 (GeForce GTX 660) |
| Core clock speed | 580 MHz | of 980 (GeForce GT 755M SLI) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 100,000 million (Data Center GPU Max 1100) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 0.003 MB (Arc Graphics 140V) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 140 Watt | of 235 (FirePro S9150) |
| Texture fill rate | 27.84 | of 1,968.0 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2784 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 896 (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
| L2 Cache | 64 KB | of 408 MB (Data Center GPU Max 1350) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9600 GTX 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).
| Interface | PCIe 2.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 6-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9600 GTX: 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 | 512 MB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 384 (GeForce GTX 980 Ti) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 16384000 MB (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 44.8 GB/s | of 983040 MB (GeForce RTX 5080) |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9600 GTX. 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 | 2x DVI, 1x S-Video |
API and SDK support
APIs supported by GeForce 9600 GTX, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 11.1 (10_0) | |
| Shader Model | 4.0 | |
| OpenGL | 3.3 | of 4.6 (RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell) |
| OpenCL | 1.1 | |
| Vulkan | N/A | |
| CUDA | 1.1 |
AMD equivalent
According to our data, the closest AMD alternative to GeForce 9600 GTX is Radeon HD 2900 GT.
Similar GPUs
Here is our recommendation of several graphics cards that are more or less close in performance to the one reviewed.
Recommended processors
These processors are most commonly used with GeForce 9600 GTX according to our statistics.
