NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 230

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G92 G94B
Architecture Tesla Tesla
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 55 nm
Number of transistors 754 million 505 million
Die size 324 mm² 196 mm²
GPU variant G94-300-B1

Graphics Card

Release date Apr 28th, 2008 Oct 12th, 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 550 MHz 650 MHz
Shader clock 1375 MHz 1625 MHz
Memory clock 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 384 MB 512 MB
Memory type GDDR3 GDDR3
Memory bus width 192 bit 256 bit
Bandwidth 38.40 GB/s 57.60 GB/s

Render Configuration

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

Performance

Pixel rate 6.600 GPixel/s 10.40 GPixel/s
Texture rate 26.40 GTexel/s 15.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 264.0 GFLOPS 156.0 GFLOPS

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Dual-slot Single-slot
Length 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 84 W 75 W
Suggested PSU 250 W 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin None
Board number P393 P545

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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