AMD Radeon R9 M280X vs NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

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AMD Radeon R9 M280X NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 M280X and 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 M280X 's Advantages

Released 6 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1000MHz

Larger VRAM bandwidth (88.00GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)

864 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 M280X +2140%

1.792 TFLOPS

GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

0.08 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 M280X

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GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition

Graphics Card

Feb 2015

Release Date

Oct 2008

Gem System

Generation

GeForce 9M

Mobile

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

MXM-II

Clock Speeds

900 MHz

Base Clock

-

1000 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

792 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

128bit

Memory Bus

128bit

88.00GB/s

Bandwidth

25.34GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

4

14

Compute Units

-

896

Shading Units

32

56

TMUs

16

ROPs

8

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

-

256 KB

L2 Cache

32 KB

Theoretical Performance

16.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

4.000 GPixel/s

56.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

8.000 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

1.792 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

80.00 GFLOPS

112.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Graphics Processor

Saturn

GPU Name

G96C

Saturn XT (216-0843024)

GPU Variant

NB9P-GS

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Tesla

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

55 nm

2.08 billion

Transistors

0.314 billion

160 mm²

Die Size

121 mm²

Board Design

Unknown

TDP

23W

-

Suggested PSU

-

Portable Device Dependent

Outputs

No outputs

-

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

2.1

OpenCL

1.1

1.2.170

Vulkan

N/A

-

CUDA

1.1

6.5

Shader Model

4.0

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