GeForce 210 vs GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 210 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 210 's Advantages
Released 10 months late
Lower TDP (31W vs 95W)
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (17.02GB/s vs 6.400GB/s)
48 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 210
39
GeForce 9600 GT Mac Edition
+392%
192
Graphics Card
Oct 2009
Release Date
Dec 2008
GeForce 200
Generation
GeForce 9
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 2.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
400 MHz
Memory Clock
266 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR3
Memory Type
DDR2
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
6.400GB/s
Bandwidth
17.02GB/s
Render Config
2
SM Count
8
16
Shading Units
64
8
TMUs
32
4
ROPs
16
32 KB
L2 Cache
64 KB
Theoretical Performance
2.080 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
9.600 GPixel/s
4.160 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
19.20 GTexel/s
39.36 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
192.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
31W
TDP
95W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x DisplayPort
1x VGA
Outputs
2x DVI
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GT218
GPU Name
G94
GT218-300-A2
GPU Variant
G94-300-A1
Tesla 2.0
Architecture
Tesla
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
40 nm
Process Size
65 nm
0.26 billion
Transistors
0.505 billion
57 mm²
Die Size
240 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_1)
DirectX
11.1 (10_0)
3.3
OpenGL
3.3
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.2
CUDA
1.1
4.1
Shader Model
4.0
