GeForce 9600 GTX: specs and benchmarks
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 (15 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 21760 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| Core clock speed | 580 MHz | of 2800 MHz (Playstation 5 Pro GPU) |
| Number of transistors | 754 million | of 208,000 million (B200 SXM 192 GB) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 65 nm | of 4 nm (H100 PCIe) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 140 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 27.84 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 0.2784 TFLOPS | of 109.7 (GeForce RTX 5090) |
| ROPs | 16 | of 192 (GA100) |
| TMUs | 48 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
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 294912 (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 256 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 700 MHz | of 20000 (RTX 5000 Ada Generation Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 44.8 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
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 compatibility
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 (GeForce GTX 1080 Mobile) |
| 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
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