GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2: specs and benchmarks

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Summary

NVIDIA started GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2 sales 21 February 2008 at a recommended price of $179 . This is a desktop graphics card based on a Tesla architecture and made with 55 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 512 MB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 0.9 GHz are supplied, and together with 256 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 57.6 GB/s.

Compatibility-wise, this is a single-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 2.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 229 mm. 1x 6-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 95 Watt.

Primary details

Some basic facts about GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the rankingnot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureTesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameG94B
Market segmentDesktop
Release date21 February 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$179 of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000)

Detailed specifications

GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores64of 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090)
Core clock speed650 MHzof 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU)
Number of transistors505 millionof 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB)
Manufacturing process technology55 nmof 3 nm (Arc Graphics 140V)
Power consumption (TDP)95 Wattof 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem)
Texture fill rate20.80of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X)
Floating-point processing power0.208 TFLOPSof 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090)
ROPs16of 192 (Radeon RX 7900 XTX)
TMUs32of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT)

Form factor & compatibility

This section provides details about the physical dimensions of GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2 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).

InterfacePCIe 2.0 x16
Length229 mm
Width1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2: 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 typeGDDR3
Maximum RAM amount512 MBof 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width256 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Memory clock speed900 MHzof 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile)
Memory bandwidth57.6 GB/sof 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X)

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2. 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 Connectors2x DVI, 1x S-Video

API compatibility

APIs supported by GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2, sometimes including their particular versions.

DirectX11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model4.0
OpenGL3.3of 4.6 (GeForce RTX 4090)
OpenCL1.1
VulkanN/A
CUDA1.1

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of GeForce 9600 GT Rev. 2. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.



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AMD equivalent

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