NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT Green Edition vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 540M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G94 GF108
GPU variant G94-300-A1 N12P-GS-A1
Architecture Tesla Fermi
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 40 nm
Number of transistors 505 million 585 million
Die size 240 mm² 116 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date Feb 21st, 2008
Generation GeForce 9
Predecessor GeForce 8
Successor GeForce 200
Production End-of-life
Launch price 179 USD
Interface PCIe 2.0 x16
Reviews 151 in our database

Clocks

GPU clock 600 MHz 672 MHz
Shader clock 1500 MHz 1344 MHz
Memory clock 700 MHz 1400 Mbps effective 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 44.80 GB/s 28.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 64 96
TMUs 32 16
ROPs 16 4
SM count 8 2
Cache L2 64 KB 256 KB
Cache L1 64 KB (per SM)

Performance

Pixel rate 9.600 GPixel/s 2.688 GPixel/s
Texture rate 19.20 GTexel/s 10.75 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 192.0 GFLOPS 258.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 21.50 GFLOPS (1:12)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot MXM Module
Length 229 mm 9 inches
TDP 95 W 35 W
Suggested PSU 250 W
Outputs 2x DVI1x S-Video No outputs
Power connectors 1x 6-pin
Board number P545

API Support & Features

DirectX 11.1 (10_0) 12 (11_0)
OpenGL 3.3 4.6
OpenCL 1.1 1.1
Vulkan
CUDA 1.1 2.1
Shader model 4.0 5.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jan 5th, 2011
Generation GeForce 500M
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Predecessor GeForce 400M
Successor GeForce 600M

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