GeForce 9600 GS OEM vs Radeon HD 6930

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking537not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation2.00no data
Power efficiency2.72no data
ArchitectureTeraScale 3 (2010−2013)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameCaymanG94
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date1 December 2011 (12 years ago)29 July 2008 (16 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$180 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores128048
Core clock speed750 MHz500 MHz
Number of transistors2,640 million505 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)186 Wattno data
Texture fill rate60.0012.00
Floating-point processing power1.92 TFLOPS0.12 TFLOPS
ROPs3212
TMUs8024

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 2.0 x16
Length220 mmno data
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors2x 6-pin1x 6-pin

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 typeGDDR5DDR2
Maximum RAM amount1 GB768 MB
Memory bus width256 Bit192 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1000 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s48 GB/s

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 HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video
HDMI+-

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)11.1 (10_0)
Shader Model5.04.0
OpenGL4.43.3
OpenCL1.21.1
VulkanN/AN/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 1 December 2011 29 July 2008
Maximum RAM amount 1 GB 768 MB
Chip lithography 40 nm 65 nm

HD 6930 has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 62.5% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon HD 6930 and GeForce 9600 GS OEM. We've got no test results to judge.


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AMD Radeon HD 6930
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