NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230 OEM

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G94 G92B
GPU variant G94-300-A1 G92-159-B1
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 505 million 754 million
Die size 240 mm² 260 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Oct 23rd, 2008 Apr 27th, 2009
Generation GeForce 9 GeForce 200
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16 PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 4 in our database
Predecessor GeForce 8 GeForce 9
Successor GeForce 200 GeForce 400

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 500 MHz
Shader clock 1625 MHz 1250 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 500 MHz 1000 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1536 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR2
Memory bus width 256 bit 192 bit
Bandwidth 57.60 GB/s 24.00 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 48 96
TMUs 24 48
ROPs 16 12
SM count 6 12
Cache L2 64 KB 48 KB

Performance

Pixel rate 10.40 GPixel/s 6.000 GPixel/s
Texture rate 15.60 GTexel/s 24.00 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 156.0 GFLOPS 240.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Single-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 90 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number P545 P363

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 11.1 (10_0)
OpenGL 3.3 3.3
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 1.1
Shader model 4.0 4.0

Other Features

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