GeForce 9600 GTX vs UHD Graphics G7 (Lakefield GT2 64 EU)

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking826not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency24.88no data
ArchitectureGen. 11 Ice Lake (2019−2022)Tesla (2006−2010)
GPU code nameLakefield GT2G92
Market segmentLaptopDesktop
Release date28 May 2020 (4 years ago)27 May 2009 (15 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 cores6496
Core clock speed200 MHz580 MHz
Boost clock speed500 MHzno data
Number of transistorsno data754 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm65 nm
Power consumption (TDP)7 Watt140 Watt
Texture fill rateno data27.84
Floating-point processing powerno data0.2784 TFLOPS
ROPsno data16
TMUsno data48

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).

Interfaceno dataPCIe 2.0 x16
Lengthno data267 mm
Widthno data2-slot
Supplementary power connectorsno data1x 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 typeDDR4GDDR3
Maximum RAM amountno data512 MB
Memory bus widthno data256 Bit
Memory clock speedno data700 MHz
Memory bandwidthno data44.8 GB/s
Shared memory+-

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 Connectorsno data2x DVI, 1x S-Video

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

Quick Sync+no data

API compatibility

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

DirectX12_111.1 (10_0)
Shader Modelno data4.0
OpenGLno data3.3
OpenCLno data1.1
Vulkan-N/A
CUDA-1.1

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 May 2020 27 May 2009
Chip lithography 10 nm 65 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 7 Watt 140 Watt

UHD Graphics G7 (Lakefield GT2 64 EU) has an age advantage of 11 years, a 550% more advanced lithography process, and 1900% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between UHD Graphics G7 (Lakefield GT2 64 EU) and GeForce 9600 GTX. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that UHD Graphics G7 (Lakefield GT2 64 EU) is a notebook card while GeForce 9600 GTX is a desktop one.


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Intel UHD Graphics G7 (Lakefield GT2 64 EU)
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