NVIDIA · Tesla (derived from codename prefix) · 2008
GeForce 9600 GSO 512
GeForce 9600 GSO 512: 512 MB GDDR3, 90 W, 48 CUDA cores. Launched October 23, 2008 at $189.
- Memory
- 512 MB
- Power
- 90 W
- Bus width
- 256 bit
Memory512 MB
52 of 290 in GeForce
Power90 W
40 of 243 by higher draw in GeForce
CUDA cores48
60 of 154 in GeForce
Launch price$189
90 of 161 in GeForce
Current market
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Specifications
Memory
- Capacity
- 512 MB
- Memory type
- GDDR3
- Bus width
- 256 bit
- Memory clock
- 900 MHz
- Bandwidth
- 57.6 GB/s
Compute
- CUDA cores
- 48
- SM count
- 6
- TMUs
- 24
- ROPs
- 16
- Pixel fill rate
- 10.4 GP/s
- Texture fill rate
- 15.6 GT/s
Clocks
- Base clock
- 650 MHz
Board
- TDP
- 90 W
- Bus interface
- PCIe 2.0 x16
- External power required
- Yes
- Form factor
- desktop
- Launch MSRP
- 189 USD
Physical
- Architecture
- Tesla (derived from codename prefix)
- Codename
- G94-300-A1 G94B
- Process
- 65 nm
- Transistors
- 505 million
- Series
- GeForce
- Launch date
- October 23, 2008
Not recorded by the source: generation, die size, boost clock and fp32, or 1 further field.
Die figure
Silicon, made visible
Die area is drawn against the largest recorded die in the catalog. Shader dots use a labeled, card-specific ratio so both early and modern GPUs remain legible.
Catalog context
Within its series, the GeForce 9600 GSO 512 ranks 52nd of 290 for memory capacity. Its 90 W TDP is above the 75 W PCIe slot-power ceiling.
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