Radeon Graphics vs GeForce 9600 GTX

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated892
Place by popularitynot in top-10010
Power efficiencyno data9.14
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)GCN 5.1 (2018−2022)
GPU code nameG92Renoir
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 May 2009 (15 years ago)no data (2024 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 cores96448
Core clock speed580 MHzno data
Boost clock speedno data1500 MHz
Number of transistors754 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology65 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)140 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate27.8442.00
Floating-point processing power0.2784 TFLOPS1.344 TFLOPS
ROPs168
TMUs4828

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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16IGP
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

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 typeGDDR3System Shared
Maximum RAM amount512 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width256 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed700 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth44.8 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-VideoNo outputs

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model4.0no data
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.1no data
VulkanN/A-
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 65 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 140 Watt 15 Watt

Graphics has a 828.6% more advanced lithography process, and 833.3% lower power consumption.

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