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NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS is a graphics card released on July 29, 2008, built on the Tesla architecture using a 65 nm process. It has 48 shading units, 768 MB of DDR2 memory on a 192-bit bus, 48.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth and a boost clock of 500 MHz. It scores 282 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

TeslaG94-300-A165 nm

8/10 key specs recorded · 27 facts

Depth: 35 recorded fields, 2 PassMark workloads

Specification data last verified October 1, 2026 against PassMark Videocard Benchmark and Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09). Coverage: 8 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.

PassMark Videocard Benchmark Wikipedia GPU list tables (wikigrid-2026-09)PassMark Videocard Benchmark

Shading units

48cores

Memory

768 MB

DDR2 · 192-bit

Boost clock

n/a

500 MHz base

Board power

n/a

Performance

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS scores 282 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 28.2% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,104), measured across 123 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 41.

PassMark G3D Mark

282

Rank #2,104
Faster than 28.2% of 2,658 GPUs
123 samples

0relative to the fastest GPU on record (41,928)

PassMark workload tests

DirectX 9 11 fps

reference: fastest recorded 526 fps · faster than 21.8% of 1,675 GPUs

DirectX 10 1 fps

reference: fastest recorded 231 fps · faster than 0% of 1,602 GPUs

Averages of PassMark PerformanceTest submissions; frames/sec are PassMark test-scene rates, not game FPS. Tests PassMark does not report for this card are omitted. PassMark listing

In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS averages DirectX 9 11 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 123 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.

As stated by PassMark

Category Desktop

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16,PCI

Max memory 768 MB

Core clock 500 MHz

Memory clock 1000 MHz

DirectX 10

OpenGL 3.3

First benchmarked 2010-01-14

Samples 123

PassMark listing (collected 2026-10-01)

PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS states the PCIe 2.0 x16,PCI interface, up to 768 MB of memory, a core clock of 500 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2010-01-14. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.

Not to be confused with

This page covers the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS specifically. It is a different product from NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO, NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512, which have their own specifications. Check the exact model name before comparing figures.

Graphics processor

Architecture Tesla

Codename G94-300-A1

Chip Not recorded

Process node 65 nm

Transistors 505 M

Die size 240 mm²

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS is based on the Tesla architecture, uses the G94-300-A1 graphics processor, is manufactured on a 65 nm process, contains 505 million transistors and has a die size of 240 mm².

Shader configuration

Shading units 48

Compute units Not recorded

Streaming multiprocessors Not recorded

Execution units Not recorded

Texture units (TMUs) 24

Render output units (ROPs) 12

Ray tracing cores Not recorded

Tensor / AI cores Not recorded

XMX engines Not recorded

Infinity cache Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS has 48 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 12 render output units.

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS does not use XMX engines; those are specific to Intel Arc graphics. Infinity Cache is an AMD architectural feature and does not apply to the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS.

Clock speeds

Base clock 500 MHz

Boost clock Not recorded

Game clock Not recorded

Memory clock Not recorded

Effective memory clock Not recorded

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS runs at a base clock of 500 MHz.

Memory

Size 768 MB

Type DDR2

Bus width 192-bit

Bandwidth 48.0 GB/s

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS is equipped with 768 MB of DDR2 memory, uses a 192-bit memory bus and delivers 48.0 GB/s of memory bandwidth.

Board and power

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16,PCI.

Board power (TDP) Not recorded

Total board power Not recorded

Suggested PSU Not recorded

Power connectors Not recorded

Slot width Not recorded

Length Not recorded

Width Not recorded

Height Not recorded

Cooler Not recorded

Max temperature Not recorded

Bus interface PCIe 2.0 x16,PCI

Market

Launched July 29, 2008

Launch price Not recorded

Status Not recorded

Form factor Not recorded

Segment Desktop

Series GeForce 9 Series

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS was released on July 29, 2008.

Benchmarks

PassMark G3D 282

PassMark G2D 41

Rank #2,104

Samples 123

Graphics and compute APIs

The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.

DirectX 10 (stated by PassMark)

OpenGL 3.3 (stated by PassMark)

Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GS.