GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce 720A
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 1024MB VRAM GeForce 720A to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (25.34GB/s vs 16.00GB/s)
Lower TDP (23W vs 33W)
GeForce 720A 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock938MHz
More VRAM (1024GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce 720A
+125%
180
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Jul 2014
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 700A
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
775 MHz
-
Boost Clock
938 MHz
792 MHz
Memory Clock
1000 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
1024MB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
16.00GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
2
32
Shading Units
96
16
TMUs
16
8
ROPs
8
-
L1 Cache
64 KB (per SM)
32 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
3.752 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
15.01 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
180.1 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
15.01 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
33W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GF117
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
N14M-GE
Tesla
Architecture
Fermi 2.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
0.585 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
116 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
1.1
N/A
Vulkan
N/A
1.1
CUDA
2.1
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
