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The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT is a single-slot card that looks exactly like the GeForce 8800 GT. It has the same sleek black shroud that marked the new generation of graphics cards from NVIDIA that not only plays well but also looks good.
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The picture of the back of the card shows that the GeForce 9600 GT also uses a similar PCB design, if not the same, as that of the GeForce 8800 GT. Without a proper label, it's very easy to mix the two cards up.
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The GeForce 9600 GT comes with two dual-linked DVI ports which are capable of supporting resolutions of up to 2560x1600. There is also a 7-pin analog TV-out port that supports S-Video directly as well as composite and component outputs via an optional dongle. It can also support HDMI using another optional adaptor.
Incidentally, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT is the third graphics card (after the GeForce 8800 GT and the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB) in the world to support PCI Express 2.0 with a 5 Gbps signalling rate. When used with a motherboard that supports PCI Express 2.0, the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT will have effectively double the PCI Express bandwidth of standard PCI Express cards.
Of course, that does not mean the GeForce 9600 GT will be twice as fast as older PCI Express graphics cards. In fact, PCI Express bandwidth will only have a minimal effect on its graphics processing capability.
If you are worried about the compatibility of the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT's new PCI Express 2.0 interface, you can rest assured. The GeForce9600 GT will still run fine on your current motherboard even if it only supports the PCI Express 1.1 standard. It is backward compatible with PCI Express 1.1 and will merely revert to the 2.5 Gbps signalling rate and a lower 8 GB/s bandwidth with these motherboards.
Specifications
Core / Card Code Name |
• G94 (D9P) |
Manufacturing Process |
• 0.065 Micron (65 Nanometers) |
Transistor Count |
• 505 Million |
DirectX Support |
• 10 |
Interface |
• PCI Express 2.0 |
Stream Processors |
• 64 |
Vertex Shader Version |
• 4.0 |
Pixel Shader Version |
• 4.0 |
Textures Per Clock |
• Average 32 |
ROPs |
• 16 |
Core Clock Speed |
• 650 MHz |
Shader Clock Speed |
• 1625 MHz |
Fill Rate |
• 20800 MTexels/s |
Memory Bus Width |
• 256-bits |
Memory Size |
• 512 MB |
Memory Type |
• GDDR3 |
Memory Speed |
• 900 MHz (1.8 GHz DDR) |
Memory Bandwidth |
• 57.6 GB/s |
RAMDAC |
• 400 MHz |
Display Support |
• Two dual-linked HDCP-enabled DVI-I outputs |
