Radeon 680M vs GeForce 9600 GS OEM

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated336
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data22.28
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameG94Rembrandt+
Market segmentDesktopLaptop
Release date29 July 2008 (16 years ago)3 January 2023 (1 year 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 cores48768
Core clock speed500 MHz2000 MHz
Boost clock speedno data2200 MHz
Number of transistors505 million13,100 million
Manufacturing process technology65 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)no data50 Watt
Texture fill rate12.00105.6
Floating-point processing power0.12 TFLOPS3.379 TFLOPS
ROPs1232
TMUs2448
Ray Tracing Coresno data12

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 x16PCIe 4.0 x8
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinNone

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 typeDDR2System Shared
Maximum RAM amount768 MBSystem Shared
Memory bus width192 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1000 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth48 GB/sno data
Shared memoryno 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 Connectors1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-VideoPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.1 (10_0)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model4.06.7
OpenGL3.34.6
OpenCL1.12.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA1.1-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 29 July 2008 3 January 2023
Chip lithography 65 nm 6 nm

Radeon 680M has an age advantage of 14 years, and a 983.3% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce 9600 GS OEM and Radeon 680M. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce 9600 GS OEM is a desktop card while Radeon 680M is a notebook one.


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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS OEM
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AMD Radeon 680M
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