NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 is a graphics card released on October 23, 2008, built on the Tesla architecture. It has 48 shading units, 512 MB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit bus, 57.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth, a boost clock of 650 MHz and a 90 W board power rating. It scores 330 in the PassMark G3D benchmark. It supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.
Depth: 36 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: 9 of 10 tracked specifications recorded.
Performance
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 scores 330 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 29.8% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked (PassMark rank #2,060), measured across 95 submitted results. Its PassMark G2D score is 79.
PassMark workload tests
In the PassMark workload tests the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 averages DirectX 9 12 fps and DirectX 10 1 fps, across 95 submitted results. Frames per second are PassMark test-scene rates, not game frame rates.
As stated by PassMark
PassMark's own listing for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 states the PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, up to 512 MB of memory, a core clock of 650 MHz, DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3, first benchmarked on 2009-04-03. These are PassMark's figures, shown separately from the specification tables above.
Graphics processor
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 is based on the Tesla architecture, uses the G94-300-A1 G94B graphics processor and contains 505 million transistors.
Shader configuration
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 has 48 shading units, 24 texture mapping units and 16 render output units.
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 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 GSO 512. Feex has no recorded ray tracing core count for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512.
Clock speeds
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 runs at a base clock of 650 MHz.
Memory
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 is equipped with 512 MB of GDDR3 memory, uses a 256-bit memory bus and delivers 57.6 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
Board and power
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 has a board power rating of 90 W and it connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
Market
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 was released on October 23, 2008 and launched at a price of $189.
Benchmarks
Graphics and compute APIs
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 supports DirectX 10 and OpenGL 3.3.
Feex has no recorded CUDA compute capability for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512. Feex has no recorded Vulkan version for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512. Feex has no recorded OpenCL version for the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512.
Naming and aliases
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 is also known by other names: PassMark also lists it as NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 (Prerelease - WDDM 1.1.
Frequently asked questions
How much VRAM does the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 have?
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 has 512 MB of GDDR3 memory on a 256-bit bus. Its memory bandwidth is 57.6 GB/s.
How much power does the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 use and what power supply does it need?
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 has a board power rating of 90 W.
How fast is the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512?
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 scores 330 in the PassMark G3D benchmark, higher than 29.8% of the 2,658 GPUs benchmarked. Its PassMark rank is #2,060.
What bus interface does the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 use?
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 connects over PCIe 2.0 x16.
When was the NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 released and how much did it cost at launch?
The NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GSO 512 was released on October 23, 2008 and launched at a price of $189.
Corrections to this record
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- Architecture: Tesla (was Not recorded). Rule: Architecture from chip codename. chip G94 -> Tesla. Sources: Wikipedia: List of Nvidia graphics processing units (revision 1377107724); Wikipedia: List of Nvidia desktop graphics processing units (revision 1375708460).
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