AMD Cypress
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
AMD Cypress
VS
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

General info

The main nomenclature characteristics of video cards AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT. Pay attention to the position in the performance rating to choose the best one.

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Place in performance rating
856
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Value for money (0-100)
7.93
TeraScale 2
Architecture
Tesla
Cypress
Code name
G94
Desktop
Type
Desktop
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Release date
21 February 2008 (13 years ago)
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Launch price (MSRP)
$179
$12.72
Price now
$129 (0.7x MSRP)
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Value for money
0.13
Cypress
GPU code name
G94
Desktop
Market segment
Desktop

Technical specs

Choose the best graphics card between AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT based on manufacturing process, power consumption, and base frequency and overclocking potential of the GPU.

1600
Pipelines
64
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Core clock speed
650 MHz
2,154 million
Transistor count
505 million
40 nm
Manufacturing process technology
65 nm
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Power consumption (TDP)
96 Watt
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Texture fill rate
20.8 billion/sec
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Floating-point performance
208 gflops
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Maximum GPU temperature
105 °C
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CUDA cores
64
1600
Pipelines / CUDA cores
64
2,154 million
Number of transistors
505 million
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Thermal design power (TDP)
96 Watt

Compatibility, dimensions and requirements

Additional technical information, does not greatly affect the performance rating when comparing the AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT.

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Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
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Length
9" (22.9 cm)
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Supplementary power connectors
6-pin
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SLI options
+
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Bus support
16x PCI-E 2.0
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Height
4.376" (11.1 cm)

Memory

Graphics card memory is used to store calculations. Modern software and 3D games require more and faster memory. The higher these parameters, the more productive the chip. The difference in these characteristics AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT can be seen in this section.

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Memory type
GDDR3
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Maximum RAM amount
512 MB
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Memory bus width
256 Bit
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Memory clock speed
900 MHz
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Memory bandwidth
57.6 GB/s

Video outputs and ports

The difference between the interfaces and ports of video cards AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT, the size and number of monitors.

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Display Connectors
HDTVTwo Dual Link DVI
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Multi monitor support
+
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Maximum VGA resolution
2048x1536
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Audio input for HDMI
S/PDIF

Technologies

The difference between AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT is the additional functionality.

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3D Vision
+
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CUDA
+

API support

The difference in supported APIs is AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT. Hardware support (API) is not considered in synthetic benchmarks and performance tests.

11.2 (11_0)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
4.4
OpenGL
2.1

Gaming performance

Select form the list the required name to identify gaming performance for AMD Cypress and NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT graphics cards. The result shows how fast the game will run and whether it can be run on this computer. The different monitor resolutions – from low to 4K – are used for testing. Find out is the AMD Cypress or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT good for gaming.


low
1280x720
med.
1920x1080
high
1920x1080
ultra
1920x1080
QHD
2560x1440
4K
3840x2160
Horizon Zero Dawn (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Death Stranding (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
F1 2020 (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Gears Tactics (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Doom Eternal (2020) AMD Cypress
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Legend
5 Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
May Stutter – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards stutter, the game is likely to show a low frame rate. There will be some lags.
30 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 25 frames per second (fps)
40 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 35 frames per second (fps)
60 Fluent – According to the results of benchmarks the game should run at 58 frames per second (fps)
May Run Fluently – Insufficient data. Similar graphics cards show a smooth frame rate, comfortable for the game.
? Uncertain – Graphics cards testing has shown that a slower card can provide a high and stable frame rate for the same operation.
Uncertain – The work of the video card in the game is still being studied. Interpolation among analogs is not possible.
The value depicts the average frame rate. Hovering over the value, you can get individual results.

Advantages of AMD Cypress

Cheaper ($12.72 vs $129 (0.7x MSRP))

More pipelines (1600 vs 64)

Finer manufacturing process technology (40 nm vs 65 nm)

Advantages of NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

2.22% faster in synthetic tests

So, AMD Cypress or NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT?

Judging by the results of synthetic and gaming tests, we recommend NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT .

AMD Cypress versus NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT performance benchmarks comparison

Overall benchmark performance

User rating

0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score AMD Cypress
0.0 Out of 0 CpusData Score NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT