GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition vs GeForce 820M
We compared two Mobile platform GPUs: 512MB VRAM GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition and 2GB VRAM GeForce 820M to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition 's Advantages
Lower TDP (23W vs 45W)
GeForce 820M 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.83GB/s vs 25.34GB/s)
352 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce 9600M GT Mac Edition
80
GeForce 820M
+677%
622
Graphics Card
Oct 2008
Release Date
Mar 2015
GeForce 9M
Generation
GeForce 800M
Mobile
Type
Mobile
MXM-II
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
792 MHz
Memory Clock
901 MHz
Memory
512MB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR3
Memory Type
DDR3
128bit
Memory Bus
128bit
25.34GB/s
Bandwidth
28.83GB/s
Render Config
4
SM Count
-
32
Shading Units
384
16
TMUs
32
8
ROPs
16
-
L1 Cache
16 KB (per SMX)
32 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
4.000 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
6.480 GPixel/s
8.000 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
25.92 GTexel/s
80.00 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
622.1 GFLOPS
-
FP64 (double)
25.92 GFLOPS
Board Design
23W
TDP
45W
No outputs
Outputs
No outputs
Graphics Processor
G96C
GPU Name
GK107
NB9P-GS
GPU Variant
-
Tesla
Architecture
Kepler
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
55 nm
Process Size
28 nm
0.314 billion
Transistors
1.27 billion
121 mm²
Die Size
118 mm²
Graphics Features
11.1 (10_0)
DirectX
12 (11_0)
3.3
OpenGL
4.6
1.1
OpenCL
3.0
N/A
Vulkan
1.1
1.1
CUDA
3.0
4.0
Shader Model
5.1
