NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT vs NVIDIA Quadro K500M

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Graphics Processor

GPU model G94 GK107
GPU variant G94-300-A1 N14M-Q1
Architecture Tesla Kepler
Foundry TSMC TSMC
Manufacturing process 65 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 505 million 1,270 million
Die size 240 mm² 118 mm²

Graphics Card

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

Clocks

GPU clock 650 MHz 850 MHz
Shader clock 1625 MHz
Memory clock 900 MHz 1800 Mbps effective 800 MHz 1600 Mbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 512 MB 1024 MB
Memory type GDDR3 DDR3
Memory bus width 256 bit 64 bit
Bandwidth 57.60 GB/s 12.80 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 64 192
TMUs 32 16
ROPs 16 8
SM count 8
Cache L2 64 KB 128 KB
SMX count 1
Cache L1 16 KB (per SMX)

Performance

Pixel rate 10.40 GPixel/s 3.400 GPixel/s
Texture rate 20.80 GTexel/s 13.60 GTexel/s
FP32 (float) performance 208.0 GFLOPS 326.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 13.60 GFLOPS (1:24)

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 3.0
Vulkan 1.1
CUDA 1.1 3.0
Shader model 4.0 5.1

Other Features

Mobile graphics

Release date Jun 1st, 2012
Generation Quadro Mobile (Kx000M)
Production End-of-life
Interface MXM-A (3.0)
Reviews 26 in our database

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